I don't like the way he writes though. It's all scare mongering. Any article that mentions Hitler/Third Reich and isn't about WWII, is just designed to stab fear into the readers heart and sway them to the writers point of view. Nobody wants to be known as the one who sides with the Hitler of the internet
The author of the Vigilante software cites an email he got from an infected user, saying that his ISP said he was not vunerable to the code red worm.
This is the kind of attitude that supports the automatic patching/formatting of code-red infected machines.
If someone could write another virus, that spreads like the code red worm that shuts down the effects of the worm and then tries to "infect" other machines, passivly or activly, for say a months time, it would greatly reduce the number of machines out there that are infected
Some times Judges have to use the internet for reasons that are proper, but copuld be construed as "bad"
The judge in the napster case would have to use napster and download music to make a informed descision.
The judge in Flint Vs US had to look at pornos
and the judge in State Vs Micro$oft had to use IE.
Judges should be trusted to make thier own descisions about what they look up. If they are afraid of accessing material to make an informed choice, because of possible bad publicity, that is BAD
Just focus in on a nude beach of known location then, over time track the changes the operator makes to keep the satellite on target. Compute from there.
The Spy satellites orbits were computed using an array of pentium I's, which were then submitted to the UN. Ofcourse due to the high accuracy required they used Floating Point numbers.....
Whoever wrote the article didn't take into account the skills of the people that were seeking jobs. Perhaps 98% of the people were high school graduates or just people who decided they had some knowledge and would seek a job in the IT industry.
On the other hand, the 2% that did get hired, were most likely the ones with REAL qualifications. I have heard many stories of dot.coms going bust cause the people they employed were substandard.
I cite Netscape as one example. The code they wrote was unusable, absolutly no order to the code. When it was released it had to be completly re-written for the mozilla project (plug).
My point is that people might be able to change the oil in the car, but that doesn't get them a job as a mechanic
It's a bit biased towards european, and especially german developers, I don't think the the country of origin and top level domain name can be taken seriously...
Till after everyone on slashdot has had a go.
I question where they have linked their web page from, I wouldn't be suppriesed if it was mainly *.de servers
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Anyone who has watched the reality television show Big Brother would realize they people are BORING!!
Anyway, what are they going to do if they spot someone??
Computer: suspect located (oustanding parking fee)
Dispatcher: central to p453, suspect heading north on main road in jeans and flannel t-shirt
(3 mins)
p453: p453 to central we have lost suspect. He has entered a western fashion store.. I repeate has entered western fashion store.
Dispatch: confirmed p453, abandon search..
And in latest developments GOD (the lord almighty himself) has filed for copyright infringement by Clonaid after they successfully clones a human being.
God claims that he/she/it/hir owns copyright over the said human being and that Clonaid is infringing on his/her/its/hir devine right as sole distributer of human beings
Clonaid on the other hand claims that they are only making a backup copy incase the original fails/breaks.
I've been thinking about the link.. and we ALL know what gerbils are used for.. I don't even want to think about it.
Ofcourse it could be that they are waiting for the mothership that is piloted by a bunch of mutent, adrenalin-smelling, little, green, invisible gerbils who will take them away to a planet far away where they can perform their hedonistic rituals in peace
Seems the marketing ploy is working.
A bit too good!! It's been/.ed (as per usuall) I recon some chaos on their servers is some compensation for court costs
note this is in AU$
Dude 60 tB is a LOT of information (600mb * 100 000)
Think of the cost to transfer that. Here in Australia the approx cost to the consumer is 1.5c/mB from the local mirror, about 5km away from my ISP. (using a uni account and this is pretty cheap)
(some ISPs charge 30c/mB)
by my calculation that is AU$900 000 = US$450 000
even if it is the tenth the price that's still a LOT!!
At my uni, QUT, Queensland, Australia, we have two different solutions.
In the main computer labs, each computer is ghosted (using norton ghost) at startup. This ensures that every machine is the same everytime and other peoples info is never accessable (ocmputer gets restarted at logout. This solution is adequate but it takes a while to load
In the Information Technology Labs (FIT), the computers are loaded with Windows NT. The computers are configured in such a way that the only directory available for writing is c:\temp, which gets wiped on log out.
The computers come with all the software required, and if the user wishes they can install programs temporarily.
Each person in the FIT gets a computer account assigned on the main server (about 6megs). There they can store anything they want. This is also accessable from outside. The account is also NT shared to S drive.
The other side of the solution is the software. Netscape is used over IE (no arguing it is plain from the statistics which is more secure). Mail is only available from a web based service. Previously Endora was used. Oviously Outlook express is very insecure compared to other mail programs.
Computers not belonging to the university are the students own responsibilty
We have never had a problem with viruses and such. I'm not sure what the acedemics use or on server side protection, but it looks like we have good security.
Robert
I'm suprised no-one looked it up in the dictionary.
According to Dictionary.com it means
hertz n 1: the unit of frequency; one Hertz has a periodic interval of one second [syn: Hertz, Hz, cycle per second, cycles/second, cps, cycle] (ref here)
so in computer speak it means operations per second (in this case Floating point ones)
This is the basis of computer benchmarking, with how many operations they can perform. The difference between CPUs with the same clock rates comes from the way they handle the data.
SO, Hertz and MFLOPS arn't related but strongly corralated
Robert
--
If one person believes in something that isn't there, they are delusional But if it is a large group it's called Religion
Well If I was the pilot of the spy plane... I'd head out AWAY from China, bale, and let the plane ditch in the sea. Then rely on the US to come rescue them (better chance than in china). This solves all the problems, no hostages, no plane falling into china's hands.
And if I'm not much mistaken, spying is a capital offence... Definity in war time it is an executable offence..
Gnome comes with better games
Gnomes are cute, KDE doesn't (Also rolls of toungue)
Gnome is spawned from GIMP
Gnomes have axes, and do light gardening
KDE sounds like a rare skin disease....
My biggest fear during the cold war was not someone hovering over the metaphorical red button, but windows 3.11 (that was running the russian missiles) would go "Fatal Exception xxxxxx.....
Defenisive mesures have been taken... DIE AMERICANS.. DIE M$"
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I don't like the way he writes though. It's all scare mongering. Any article that mentions Hitler/Third Reich and isn't about WWII, is just designed to stab fear into the readers heart and sway them to the writers point of view. Nobody wants to be known as the one who sides with the Hitler of the internet
As far as I know, java is free. Not free in the sense of open source, but free in the sense you don't have to pay to use it.
As a java developer, I can download the newest and fullest java versions (v1.4b2).
But he makes a good point, java isn't slow anymore, it's speeding up.
The author of the Vigilante software cites an email he got from an infected user, saying that his ISP said he was not vunerable to the code red worm.
This is the kind of attitude that supports the automatic patching/formatting of code-red infected machines.
If someone could write another virus, that spreads like the code red worm that shuts down the effects of the worm and then tries to "infect" other machines, passivly or activly, for say a months time, it would greatly reduce the number of machines out there that are infected
Some times Judges have to use the internet for reasons that are proper, but copuld be construed as "bad"
The judge in the napster case would have to use napster and download music to make a informed descision.
The judge in Flint Vs US had to look at pornos
and the judge in State Vs Micro$oft had to use IE.
Judges should be trusted to make thier own descisions about what they look up. If they are afraid of accessing material to make an informed choice, because of possible bad publicity, that is BAD
Just focus in on a nude beach of known location then, over time track the changes the operator makes to keep the satellite on target. Compute from there.
The Spy satellites orbits were computed using an array of pentium I's, which were then submitted to the UN. Ofcourse due to the high accuracy required they used Floating Point numbers.....
Whoever wrote the article didn't take into account the skills of the people that were seeking jobs. Perhaps 98% of the people were high school graduates or just people who decided they had some knowledge and would seek a job in the IT industry.
On the other hand, the 2% that did get hired, were most likely the ones with REAL qualifications. I have heard many stories of dot.coms going bust cause the people they employed were substandard.
I cite Netscape as one example. The code they wrote was unusable, absolutly no order to the code. When it was released it had to be completly re-written for the mozilla project (plug).
My point is that people might be able to change the oil in the car, but that doesn't get them a job as a mechanic
It's a bit biased towards european, and especially german developers, I don't think the the country of origin and top level domain name can be taken seriously...
Till after everyone on slashdot has had a go.
I question where they have linked their web page from, I wouldn't be suppriesed if it was mainly *.de servers
Robert
We will, and actually we already have you inDUHvidual. We are a class above you and we will smite your with our geek powers!!!
Enjoy POWER? Enjoy GUNS?
Join the Tampa Police!!!
We are looking for young, eager people to join our crack new cyber-crimefighting squad.
No danger envolved, suspects carry walking frames and are in wheel chairs
Tampa Police - Cracking down on unpaid jay walking tickets (from 1956) since July 2001
Anyone who has watched the reality television show Big Brother would realize they people are BORING!!
Anyway, what are they going to do if they spot someone??
Computer: suspect located (oustanding parking fee)
Dispatcher: central to p453, suspect heading north on main road in jeans and flannel t-shirt
(3 mins)
p453: p453 to central we have lost suspect. He has entered a western fashion store.. I repeate has entered western fashion store.
Dispatch: confirmed p453, abandon search..
And in latest developments GOD (the lord almighty himself) has filed for copyright infringement by Clonaid after they successfully clones a human being.
God claims that he/she/it/hir owns copyright over the said human being and that Clonaid is infringing on his/her/its/hir devine right as sole distributer of human beings
Clonaid on the other hand claims that they are only making a backup copy incase the original fails/breaks.
I've been thinking about the link.. and we ALL know what gerbils are used for.. I don't even want to think about it.
Ofcourse it could be that they are waiting for the mothership that is piloted by a bunch of mutent, adrenalin-smelling, little, green, invisible gerbils who will take them away to a planet far away where they can perform their hedonistic rituals in peace
Seems the marketing ploy is working. /.ed (as per usuall) I recon some chaos on their servers is some compensation for court costs
A bit too good!! It's been
I agree, there are already enough scripting languages out there for every concievable use. Why take up more disk space with another scripting engine??
This reminds me of a (joke) article I read quite some time backn ary.htm
http://www.adelaide.net.au/~attema/Vews/humour/bi
Your missing the point.. That is the cost to the ISP, or server, even if they were in the US they still have to pay AFAIK
note this is in AU$
Dude 60 tB is a LOT of information (600mb * 100 000)
Think of the cost to transfer that. Here in Australia the approx cost to the consumer is 1.5c/mB from the local mirror, about 5km away from my ISP. (using a uni account and this is pretty cheap)
(some ISPs charge 30c/mB)
by my calculation that is AU$900 000 = US$450 000
even if it is the tenth the price that's still a LOT!!
In the main computer labs, each computer is ghosted (using norton ghost) at startup. This ensures that every machine is the same everytime and other peoples info is never accessable (ocmputer gets restarted at logout. This solution is adequate but it takes a while to load
In the Information Technology Labs (FIT), the computers are loaded with Windows NT. The computers are configured in such a way that the only directory available for writing is c:\temp, which gets wiped on log out.
The computers come with all the software required, and if the user wishes they can install programs temporarily.
Each person in the FIT gets a computer account assigned on the main server (about 6megs). There they can store anything they want. This is also accessable from outside. The account is also NT shared to S drive.
The other side of the solution is the software. Netscape is used over IE (no arguing it is plain from the statistics which is more secure). Mail is only available from a web based service. Previously Endora was used. Oviously Outlook express is very insecure compared to other mail programs.
Computers not belonging to the university are the students own responsibilty
We have never had a problem with viruses and such. I'm not sure what the acedemics use or on server side protection, but it looks like we have good security. Robert
hertz n 1: the unit of frequency; one Hertz has a periodic interval of one second [syn: Hertz, Hz, cycle per second, cycles/second, cps, cycle]
(ref here)
so in computer speak it means operations per second (in this case Floating point ones)
This is the basis of computer benchmarking, with how many operations they can perform. The difference between CPUs with the same clock rates comes from the way they handle the data.
SO, Hertz and MFLOPS arn't related but strongly corralated
Robert
--
If one person believes in something that isn't there, they are delusional
But if it is a large group it's called Religion
The amount of "right" you have to bash a service is directly proportional to the amount you pay for it
Many Australians would have been glad if this had been applied to HIH
Well If I was the pilot of the spy plane... I'd head out AWAY from China, bale, and let the plane ditch in the sea. Then rely on the US to come rescue them (better chance than in china). This solves all the problems, no hostages, no plane falling into china's hands.
And if I'm not much mistaken, spying is a capital offence... Definity in war time it is an executable offence..
nuff said
Gnome comes with better games
Gnomes are cute, KDE doesn't (Also rolls of toungue)
Gnome is spawned from GIMP
Gnomes have axes, and do light gardening
KDE sounds like a rare skin disease....
And most of all, that foot just looks COOL
My biggest fear during the cold war was not someone hovering over the metaphorical red button, but windows 3.11 (that was running the russian missiles) would go "Fatal Exception xxxxxx .....
Defenisive mesures have been taken... DIE AMERICANS.. DIE M$"