I gotta disagree with you bud. An entire generation of folks were inspired by the Apollo program to dream and become todays scientists/engineers etc. The world NEEDS lofty goals like this. I think that too many folks focus on "What NASA got us" and not on the value of the less tangible items (inspiration and willingness to push the envelope of human acheivement).
It's easy to turn this into a mudslinging match... But the truth is that NASA has the most experience in this field. Passive-aggressive comments like this only serve to derail the discussion. So let's keep it more college and less 8th grade eh?
I'm with ubergeek2009 on this. Perhaps breakthroughs in quantum computing will assist in the future modeling of the global climate. There are just so many variables. Personal politics should really be removed from this conversation for any meaningful discussions to progress.
2.5 million requests over the course of a day is a drop in the bucket for a large scale enterprise site. Sure, you would expect to see reasonable protections in place, but without some sort of prior knowledge (or dumb luck) it would be extremely difficult to find this bug (hence the two year window)...
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Angels and ministers of grace defend us! -- Willie S.
What is even funnier is that "one of the biggest names in the Linux world, "RedHat"" fixed the damn bug the day before the original article was published... Nice try idiots (read Ars Technica)...
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I gotta disagree with you bud. An entire generation of folks were inspired by the Apollo program to dream and become todays scientists/engineers etc. The world NEEDS lofty goals like this. I think that too many folks focus on "What NASA got us" and not on the value of the less tangible items (inspiration and willingness to push the envelope of human acheivement).
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It's easy to turn this into a mudslinging match... But the truth is that NASA has the most experience in this field. Passive-aggressive comments like this only serve to derail the discussion. So let's keep it more college and less 8th grade eh?
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Remember ALF?! He's back. In pog form!
Well I'm not very surprised about Fox doing this. Every good idea gets thrown into the shredder in this country.
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Rupert is a sunnuvabitch. A rich sunnuvabitch.
I'm with ubergeek2009 on this. Perhaps breakthroughs in quantum computing will assist in the future modeling of the global climate. There are just so many variables. Personal politics should really be removed from this conversation for any meaningful discussions to progress.
2.5 million requests over the course of a day is a drop in the bucket for a large scale enterprise site. Sure, you would expect to see reasonable protections in place, but without some sort of prior knowledge (or dumb luck) it would be extremely difficult to find this bug (hence the two year window)... ----- Angels and ministers of grace defend us! -- Willie S.
Yeah!! What he said!!
The United States Government is in breach of contract with its citizens. Where's the effin accountability?!!
afraid.org?? They are decent.
Dude you lost me after the 992nd word....
Haven't needed that shit since 2003.
What is even funnier is that "one of the biggest names in the Linux world, "RedHat"" fixed the damn bug the day before the original article was published... Nice try idiots (read Ars Technica)...