That tactic worked against Estonia a couple of years ago. People is easy to manipulate, at least in big numbers, and paying a few comunicators could be less expensive than paying thousands of normal users.
Of course, building a botnet is per se an aggressive move, either against your own citizens or to foreing (enemy or not) countries, if it spreads over their computers. And the easiest way to get attacked by your own tools (no need to get to skynet, just smart infiltrating in the c&c channel)
If they tought that God were almighty and everywhere, they could still think that, just put up several orders of magnitude how much powerful must be. And, of course, stop thinking on it as an human form.
Or go to Clarke's law for religion, any sufficiently powerful entity is indistinguishable from God and redefine that we had just one, not "the" god in universal scale.
Or just think.
Religion is a good tool, but dont have to be the truth.
Missing in the list:
Ubuntu is free and OSS, so replace Windows with it. No need for antivirus, includes openoffice (that can handle pdf creation if you need), with nautilus open zip files and around 10-20k more useful programs that can replace most of the apps their use.
first Ringworld was claimed to be impossible, and now the same happens with his 70's story "The Hole Man", where what happens is essentially involves a micro black hole falling into a planet. Science is slowly killing hard sci-fi.
This is not supposed to affect applications, just servers or clients, but not sure how the server will "suggest" more files without at the very least parsing the html files served (probably caching a bit, then parsing, then sending the headers with the suggestions and then the actual content).
More than in the application web serves, could be interesting to implement this in the perimetral (caching) reverse proxy servers (like in varnish and others). That won't force changing probably legacy web servers, and implementing it could add some improvement even if this new protocol isnt used by most/all clients.
Try to pick passwords that are easy to remember to you, and hard to guess/crack by someone else. Pick something you remember, a song title, a verse, a murphy law, whatever. Then do a simple and easy to remember transformation on it, like picking initials, uppercasing every third letter, or things like that. And if you can put into the mix something related to the site you are using it, better. Who knows how much people have as password for Slashdot something like "S:nfn,stm".
And btw, if you have to store them somewhere, you can store only one of the components (i.e. the seed, but not the transformation algorithm), or the start of the phrase or even something that suggest it to you (i.e. "Spock died" to suggest the password ST2:TwoK)
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Could take till the end of universe and a godlike intelligence to answer how to decrease entropy, or even an entire planet to figure to what question is 42 the answer.
What matters as big questions now could not matter in the future, or the proper answer be meaningless for our current knowledge/posibilities.
Computer malware could screw badly your REAL life. It should be a real example to show to people that aren't concerned about security, uses insecure practices/browsers/operating systems/whatever.
Probably is the most convincing scenario until a computer virus manage to infect and kill real people.
Butterfly effect could rule too much/few windy/sunny days, and software bugs could put the grid on risk. Maybe that we base our civilization on that energy source is a crockroaches plan to make sure that only them survive.
More activity to hunt this things probably will also hurt even more their predators or whatever contributed to regulate their numbers. The best way to get to balance is to try to repair what we did to unbalance things, like stop/minimize hunting sea turtles or that species of fishes that controlled their numbers.
Tried misstyping a domain in google? It suggest the correct one right there if the domain is widely used. Of course, bookmarking in shorter/safer/easier than typing every time the same domain. And chrome/firefox warns you to when you try to access reported malware and phishing sites. If you want to be horrified at something, start for people frequently typing URLS (or clicking them from spam messages) using a browser with vulnerabilities that enables to run binaries or without that kind of phishing protection. Like with the 20-30% that still use IE6, specially in environments where the consequences of getting hit are worse.
Now the monster of frankenstein (powered by lightning) was in fact the first asimovian positronic robot (ok, the alpha one, without any law). With that much discussion about who could be the author to write Asimov's stories, maybe the original Mary Shelley could be the one worthy for that task.
I know that it probably work in current major browsers without problems, but somewhat look a bit like a push towards Chrome. If things start to base more and more in javascript, specially complex one, not only the old browsers will die (ok, killing IE6 for good is an obligation for the future of mankind, or at least internet), but also current/competitive browsers not so fast at the javascript arena will get a big hit too. Good enough will stop being enough when most internet need complex javascript and a blazing fast javascript engine to work. But i suppose that is better that it be based on open standards from the start than the adoble flash way.
I suppose that complaining about this sounds like asking to forget civilization and go back to rural communities and simpler old way of life, but sometimes you miss the good old web as it used to be (yes, even the slashdot comment editor from 1997)
Hope that the "shutdown" means that answer everything as NOT blacklisted for the people/devices that surelly will still use them for a while (not sure how will be interpreted to not be able to connect to the service), not the opposite that happened with others blacklists in the past.
Bad rap? Like putting in blacklist entire ISPs because a single customer had a trojan? Or whole hosting companies (a/19 range) because one client from a single IP got an intrusion? A lot simply stopped trying to get delisted by them, and not sure how much people trust in what they say anyway, just too much false positives and no easy/fast way to get out.
Somewhat common sense real life lessons dont work in the same way when you talk about software. Ok, shooting yourself in the right foot hurt, but maybe the problem is the foot you picked and not that you shoot yourself, so put a bandage that could make it a bit less painful and, keep shooting yourself that the problem is definately not there, maybe shooting in the other foot, arm or head wont hurt at all.
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He had, in his original planet. Now just try to find a gate back.
That tactic worked against Estonia a couple of years ago. People is easy to manipulate, at least in big numbers, and paying a few comunicators could be less expensive than paying thousands of normal users.
Of course, building a botnet is per se an aggressive move, either against your own citizens or to foreing (enemy or not) countries, if it spreads over their computers. And the easiest way to get attacked by your own tools (no need to get to skynet, just smart infiltrating in the c&c channel)
If they tought that God were almighty and everywhere, they could still think that, just put up several orders of magnitude how much powerful must be. And, of course, stop thinking on it as an human form.
Or go to Clarke's law for religion, any sufficiently powerful entity is indistinguishable from God and redefine that we had just one, not "the" god in universal scale.
Or just think.
Religion is a good tool, but dont have to be the truth.
Missing in the list:
Ubuntu is free and OSS, so replace Windows with it. No need for antivirus, includes openoffice (that can handle pdf creation if you need), with nautilus open zip files and around 10-20k more useful programs that can replace most of the apps their use.
first Ringworld was claimed to be impossible, and now the same happens with his 70's story "The Hole Man", where what happens is essentially involves a micro black hole falling into a planet. Science is slowly killing hard sci-fi.
This is not supposed to affect applications, just servers or clients, but not sure how the server will "suggest" more files without at the very least parsing the html files served (probably caching a bit, then parsing, then sending the headers with the suggestions and then the actual content).
More than in the application web serves, could be interesting to implement this in the perimetral (caching) reverse proxy servers (like in varnish and others). That won't force changing probably legacy web servers, and implementing it could add some improvement even if this new protocol isnt used by most/all clients.
Gopher is not installed by default, kiddie. But my old trusty telnet to port 80 is still working like the 1st day.
Operating systems for gourmets: Linux make coffee, and now Windows make sandwichs (not sure what makes OS/X, but it Cocoa flavored)
Try to pick passwords that are easy to remember to you, and hard to guess/crack by someone else. Pick something you remember, a song title, a verse, a murphy law, whatever. Then do a simple and easy to remember transformation on it, like picking initials, uppercasing every third letter, or things like that. And if you can put into the mix something related to the site you are using it, better. Who knows how much people have as password for Slashdot something like "S:nfn,stm".
And btw, if you have to store them somewhere, you can store only one of the components (i.e. the seed, but not the transformation algorithm), or the start of the phrase or even something that suggest it to you (i.e. "Spock died" to suggest the password ST2:TwoK)
"I see dead people" will take another meaning.
Could take till the end of universe and a godlike intelligence to answer how to decrease entropy, or even an entire planet to figure to what question is 42 the answer.
What matters as big questions now could not matter in the future, or the proper answer be meaningless for our current knowledge/posibilities.
Computer malware could screw badly your REAL life. It should be a real example to show to people that aren't concerned about security, uses insecure practices/browsers/operating systems/whatever.
Probably is the most convincing scenario until a computer virus manage to infect and kill real people.
Butterfly effect could rule too much/few windy/sunny days, and software bugs could put the grid on risk. Maybe that we base our civilization on that energy source is a crockroaches plan to make sure that only them survive.
More activity to hunt this things probably will also hurt even more their predators or whatever contributed to regulate their numbers. The best way to get to balance is to try to repair what we did to unbalance things, like stop/minimize hunting sea turtles or that species of fishes that controlled their numbers.
Tried misstyping a domain in google? It suggest the correct one right there if the domain is widely used. Of course, bookmarking in shorter/safer/easier than typing every time the same domain. And chrome/firefox warns you to when you try to access reported malware and phishing sites. If you want to be horrified at something, start for people frequently typing URLS (or clicking them from spam messages) using a browser with vulnerabilities that enables to run binaries or without that kind of phishing protection. Like with the 20-30% that still use IE6, specially in environments where the consequences of getting hit are worse.
Now the monster of frankenstein (powered by lightning) was in fact the first asimovian positronic robot (ok, the alpha one, without any law). With that much discussion about who could be the author to write Asimov's stories, maybe the original Mary Shelley could be the one worthy for that task.
and paired with this keyboard
Slashdot: New for nerds, stuff that matters
Google Dashboard: All your data are belong to us
I know that it probably work in current major browsers without problems, but somewhat look a bit like a push towards Chrome. If things start to base more and more in javascript, specially complex one, not only the old browsers will die (ok, killing IE6 for good is an obligation for the future of mankind, or at least internet), but also current/competitive browsers not so fast at the javascript arena will get a big hit too. Good enough will stop being enough when most internet need complex javascript and a blazing fast javascript engine to work. But i suppose that is better that it be based on open standards from the start than the adoble flash way.
I suppose that complaining about this sounds like asking to forget civilization and go back to rural communities and simpler old way of life, but sometimes you miss the good old web as it used to be (yes, even the slashdot comment editor from 1997)
In 1 millon years slashdot that will finally happens and Slashdot will stop posting dupes about it.
With it Google news is showing articles of next week.
Hope that the "shutdown" means that answer everything as NOT blacklisted for the people/devices that surelly will still use them for a while (not sure how will be interpreted to not be able to connect to the service), not the opposite that happened with others blacklists in the past.
Bad rap? Like putting in blacklist entire ISPs because a single customer had a trojan? Or whole hosting companies (a /19 range) because one client from a single IP got an intrusion? A lot simply stopped trying to get delisted by them, and not sure how much people trust in what they say anyway, just too much false positives and no easy/fast way to get out.
Somewhat common sense real life lessons dont work in the same way when you talk about software. Ok, shooting yourself in the right foot hurt, but maybe the problem is the foot you picked and not that you shoot yourself, so put a bandage that could make it a bit less painful and, keep shooting yourself that the problem is definately not there, maybe shooting in the other foot, arm or head wont hurt at all.
Considering that both events will happen approximately at the same year, yes, would be stuff that matters here.