"With about 100 nodes". The average windows botnet (at least the one that make into the news) have from hundreds of thousands to millons of nodes. Not sure how "automatic" was the creation of this botnet, or how much at risk are generic linux users. Considering how are installed some and how careful are some admins about "security", is not amazing that a few out there could be rooted.
In fact, if those servers already had apache, and some old vulnerable web application that enables somewhat transfer and execute binaries, in no recently patched kernels 2.4+ there are ways to escalate priviledges and get root to install what is needed. But probably normal users using modern distributions or admins caring a little about security are safe.
Programmers wont be so happy with their day changing in leap years (is almost a tradition to forget that they exists or not calculate that properly, in the other hand, you can say you grown as programmer when you start caring about that detail).
But if they want to take a date which number means everything, they could pick Feb 11th, with the advantage that dont change leap years (is not specific for programmers but a lot will get the reference).
Or go full binary with i.e. 10/01 (01/01 is already taken) or go full hexa picking the 13/10 (only meaningful in russia, probably), even if the year will kill the pattern (well next 2 ones will work still for binary)
The motodetails were motoblurred in the motoannouncement. Would be interesting to see how it compares in meaningful features with other Android cellphones and from other platforms (iphone, latest blackberry, nokia n900, etc).
Also a social network specifically only for users of their phones starting from that model could not end being a so good idea, specially with already widely used social networks with mobile clients (i.e. facebook) and probably future ones (i would bet that Google wave will have an android, and other smartphones, client, and could shape part of itself to be a social network too). If it gets very popular could pump sales of course, but need to reach critical mass first, and the price to enter could be high.
With the Schroedinger cat you didnt know if it was alive or dead in the physical experiment. But biology has decided yet if virus are alive to start it? What will be the next thing they will use for this test? a meme?
Now you found a practical use for a big beowulf cluster: running crysis with that resolution. If that is not enough, maybe the entire google cluster could work.
Forcing the use of IE in particular for that application, as in corporate networks, is like mandating to use belt only in very slow cars. The biggest and most expensive risks are exactly in corporate networks, and forcing to have an agent there that is vulnerable even to bad breath (usually the enforced version is an old one, wont be very surprised if a good percent of those inside the firewall browsers are IE6) sounds almost criminal.
Firewalls are pretty good to avoid things from outside getting in by themselves. But once you put an agent there that opens the door to things from outside (probably the most used vector right now) it turns the firewall meaningless. And if well you can put things that do a virus scan of what is coming, its not easy to detect 0-day attacks, or targetted trojans, or the js/activex/dynamic html/whatever attack of the day.
The amount of PCs is not so bad. How many people you think gets asked to do "representative" polls?
The problem us which 10K pcs. Are representative of all the PCs or there is something that rigs the stats? (i.e. if they run windows you can't extrapolate this data to all).
Well... would you consider Hell as a country? Have associated enough related names to be considered there (bsod, dll hell, ping of death, bill gates, etc). To be fair, unix should belong to that country too, is full of daemons (so much that the logo of one is a small devil), and when they get angry they dump cores... but dont lose hope, seems that that general area is getting cool enough to get penguins happy.
"Your" data looks a lot like what we could want as "privacy". This are my personal data, my email account, what i did somewhere, etc, and dont want that anyone could use it (you know, suing, with DPP excuse now) and much less share it with others
Well, religion is a classic example that was there practically since we exist. But lately is what concerns me. What about all those ads with scientist lookalike people claiming something that ends being snake oil more than truth? If i remember well a bunch of scientists (as in psychologysts and other non weather related areas) claimed that the global warming was a hoax some years ago.
You can dig a lot of papers, see certifications, other qualified opinions and so on in front of a "science" claim, or just believe, that is what most do. Real science can stand the you-doing-the-hard-work test, but for most people there are little difference between what actually science says, and what says someone claiming that it is science.
And there are areas where science is not involved in a very direct way, like in politics, economy, and so on.
If we are easier to be convinced that that junk in fact is medicine and will heal us (and in a so strong way that it will even work), in what other fields are we swallowing "placebos" giving us the feeling that they work?
The biggest problem is that if well our brain could control somewhat our body, i.e. lowering pain, in other fields reality could be strongly against what our brain feels. Unfortunately the only example that comes to my mind right now is the "safest operating system on earth", signal that im accepting all the other placebos.
I remember as child hearing old people saying that now dumber/less respectful/worse/etc than in the "good old times". Looks like a pattern is repeating somewhere. If we get stupider with each tech advance (calculators, tv, phone, computers, internet, cellphones, etc) are we going straight to Idiocracy or maybe we could be not seeing the whole picture? Things change, some things are worse by old standards, and some other things could be better or had no meaning in the old times, or no way/need to measure them before.
Having no screen could be seen as analogous of being blind (ok, you can see the keyboard) Maybe some of the existing solutions for blind people in linux could do the work. Else you could get creative with the speaker and the command prompt (i.e. 2 beeps if last command returned non-zero:)
If you want to test just capacity for solving problems, don't make it depend on fine language understanding, some good foreign developers could be fluent in english technical written language and dont do so well on full language, or spoken one. Test as possible what you really want to know, not putting limitations on things that could or could not matter in the job.
What if you take it as "cache", one that survives reboots, but where if you really want data persistence you backup it to a more transportable device? Probably will be pretty fast regarding speed (maybe faster than normal ssds, at least regarding bus connection), and having i.e. the most requested files, database slaves for fast queries, swap/temp partitions or even the OS could improve a lot typical pc performance.
Verbally the title could be a little ambiguous, Is not the same AMC releasing "The Prisoner", than AMC releasing the prisoner (in the last reading the first thing anyone will think is "what is AMC?")..
I suspect that more people will be happy with AMC putting free the old The Prisoner, than releasing a new one.
What number will he have? The old one was 6, maybe next one will be 66, and we should wait till the real good version, in the reboot of the serie, when will be 666 (if the prisoner is 666, i would be very afraid of some entity called AMC that not only managed to imprison him, but plans soon to release him to the world)
Like the ones in Cube (and se/pre quels) that separate one room from another, short, high, but usually was enough to give a hint on what is forward, or at least see the fate to the first one that went in. Or the one in Coraline (ok, is no sci-fi, but probably qualifies as a "special" corridor).
Streaming audio and video implies a lot of traffic, and got more popular since 2 years ago, the shape of traffic could had varied. And some of that streaming could had covered some of the areas where p2p was popular, like series, movies, and music.
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"With about 100 nodes". The average windows botnet (at least the one that make into the news) have from hundreds of thousands to millons of nodes. Not sure how "automatic" was the creation of this botnet, or how much at risk are generic linux users. Considering how are installed some and how careful are some admins about "security", is not amazing that a few out there could be rooted.
In fact, if those servers already had apache, and some old vulnerable web application that enables somewhat transfer and execute binaries, in no recently patched kernels 2.4+ there are ways to escalate priviledges and get root to install what is needed. But probably normal users using modern distributions or admins caring a little about security are safe.
Programmers wont be so happy with their day changing in leap years (is almost a tradition to forget that they exists or not calculate that properly, in the other hand, you can say you grown as programmer when you start caring about that detail).
But if they want to take a date which number means everything, they could pick Feb 11th, with the advantage that dont change leap years (is not specific for programmers but a lot will get the reference).
Or go full binary with i.e. 10/01 (01/01 is already taken) or go full hexa picking the 13/10 (only meaningful in russia, probably), even if the year will kill the pattern (well next 2 ones will work still for binary)
Who you want to be your next Big Brother?
The motodetails were motoblurred in the motoannouncement. Would be interesting to see how it compares in meaningful features with other Android cellphones and from other platforms (iphone, latest blackberry, nokia n900, etc).
Also a social network specifically only for users of their phones starting from that model could not end being a so good idea, specially with already widely used social networks with mobile clients (i.e. facebook) and probably future ones (i would bet that Google wave will have an android, and other smartphones, client, and could shape part of itself to be a social network too). If it gets very popular could pump sales of course, but need to reach critical mass first, and the price to enter could be high.
With the Schroedinger cat you didnt know if it was alive or dead in the physical experiment. But biology has decided yet if virus are alive to start it? What will be the next thing they will use for this test? a meme?
Now you found a practical use for a big beowulf cluster: running crysis with that resolution. If that is not enough, maybe the entire google cluster could work.
Forcing the use of IE in particular for that application, as in corporate networks, is like mandating to use belt only in very slow cars. The biggest and most expensive risks are exactly in corporate networks, and forcing to have an agent there that is vulnerable even to bad breath (usually the enforced version is an old one, wont be very surprised if a good percent of those inside the firewall browsers are IE6) sounds almost criminal.
Firewalls are pretty good to avoid things from outside getting in by themselves. But once you put an agent there that opens the door to things from outside (probably the most used vector right now) it turns the firewall meaningless. And if well you can put things that do a virus scan of what is coming, its not easy to detect 0-day attacks, or targetted trojans, or the js/activex/dynamic html/whatever attack of the day.
The amount of PCs is not so bad. How many people you think gets asked to do "representative" polls? The problem us which 10K pcs. Are representative of all the PCs or there is something that rigs the stats? (i.e. if they run windows you can't extrapolate this data to all).
Well... would you consider Hell as a country? Have associated enough related names to be considered there (bsod, dll hell, ping of death, bill gates, etc). To be fair, unix should belong to that country too, is full of daemons (so much that the logo of one is a small devil), and when they get angry they dump cores... but dont lose hope, seems that that general area is getting cool enough to get penguins happy.
Im more impressed with the other reading that you can do to it: "now you can do what *nix admins have been doing since last millenium"
"Your" data looks a lot like what we could want as "privacy". This are my personal data, my email account, what i did somewhere, etc, and dont want that anyone could use it (you know, suing, with DPP excuse now) and much less share it with others
Next WIPO meeting in Geneva will treat this topic next november (after going to the activation ceremony of this).
Well, religion is a classic example that was there practically since we exist. But lately is what concerns me. What about all those ads with scientist lookalike people claiming something that ends being snake oil more than truth? If i remember well a bunch of scientists (as in psychologysts and other non weather related areas) claimed that the global warming was a hoax some years ago.
You can dig a lot of papers, see certifications, other qualified opinions and so on in front of a "science" claim, or just believe, that is what most do. Real science can stand the you-doing-the-hard-work test, but for most people there are little difference between what actually science says, and what says someone claiming that it is science.
And there are areas where science is not involved in a very direct way, like in politics, economy, and so on.
If we are easier to be convinced that that junk in fact is medicine and will heal us (and in a so strong way that it will even work), in what other fields are we swallowing "placebos" giving us the feeling that they work?
The biggest problem is that if well our brain could control somewhat our body, i.e. lowering pain, in other fields reality could be strongly against what our brain feels. Unfortunately the only example that comes to my mind right now is the "safest operating system on earth", signal that im accepting all the other placebos.
If you go around with a replica of a BFG-9000, the name of the gun claimed would be probably more similar to the actual weapon name.
Not sure if still unsold iphones are somewhat in MobileMe or something like that as extra security.
I remember as child hearing old people saying that now dumber/less respectful/worse/etc than in the "good old times". Looks like a pattern is repeating somewhere. If we get stupider with each tech advance (calculators, tv, phone, computers, internet, cellphones, etc) are we going straight to Idiocracy or maybe we could be not seeing the whole picture? Things change, some things are worse by old standards, and some other things could be better or had no meaning in the old times, or no way/need to measure them before.
Having no screen could be seen as analogous of being blind (ok, you can see the keyboard) Maybe some of the existing solutions for blind people in linux could do the work. Else you could get creative with the speaker and the command prompt (i.e. 2 beeps if last command returned non-zero :)
Elrond and Legolas entered in the Most Wanted Fugitives FBI list.
If you want to test just capacity for solving problems, don't make it depend on fine language understanding, some good foreign developers could be fluent in english technical written language and dont do so well on full language, or spoken one. Test as possible what you really want to know, not putting limitations on things that could or could not matter in the job.
Looks really weird, but at least is no South Park's IT.
What if you take it as "cache", one that survives reboots, but where if you really want data persistence you backup it to a more transportable device? Probably will be pretty fast regarding speed (maybe faster than normal ssds, at least regarding bus connection), and having i.e. the most requested files, database slaves for fast queries, swap/temp partitions or even the OS could improve a lot typical pc performance.
Verbally the title could be a little ambiguous, Is not the same AMC releasing "The Prisoner", than AMC releasing the prisoner (in the last reading the first thing anyone will think is "what is AMC?")..
I suspect that more people will be happy with AMC putting free the old The Prisoner, than releasing a new one.
What number will he have? The old one was 6, maybe next one will be 66, and we should wait till the real good version, in the reboot of the serie, when will be 666 (if the prisoner is 666, i would be very afraid of some entity called AMC that not only managed to imprison him, but plans soon to release him to the world)
Like the ones in Cube (and se/pre quels) that separate one room from another, short, high, but usually was enough to give a hint on what is forward, or at least see the fate to the first one that went in. Or the one in Coraline (ok, is no sci-fi, but probably qualifies as a "special" corridor).
Streaming audio and video implies a lot of traffic, and got more popular since 2 years ago, the shape of traffic could had varied. And some of that streaming could had covered some of the areas where p2p was popular, like series, movies, and music.