Not a fatal flaw: airships are slow. If someone were to divert an airship, defense forces would have plenty of time to detect and react before you could get the flying bomb anywhere it could cause real damage.
The real flaw with this theory is the wind that you are trying to harness also would toss the blimp around. Now, if you were to HARNESS and CONTROL that 'sail' effect, much like ships of old, you might be able to do something really useful!
OK, I am sure I am probably not the first person to suggest this, but P2P makes the most sense for large files. but of course someone might try to trojan the file. What we need is a cross-platform, open-source p2p with ENFORCED RC5 checking.
What I find really distressing is the number of times I have searched for things such as the linux kernel or openbsd iso's on the late morpheus/kazaa, or gnutella, and not found any. after downloading, I put up the kernel never to have it touched.
Many people don't use gnutella because of the high bandwidth consumption of the porn/warez/mp3 searches going on. What if we were to start a new gnutella network strictly for open source software. maybe network ID "opensource"? I have to admit I don't consider myself an expert on gnutella, maybe someone who is can remark on the merits of this idea.
If I get three other people who respond to this post and will tell me they are willing to be a part of the network, I will put up a node here.
Now, what we need is kernel maintainers (and other project maintainers) to post MD5s in a place that won't be swamped by people using the traditional methods (c2s?) of leeching^h^h^h^h^hdownloading.
Most of the software that comes out of Indian (and some eastern european) Sweat Shops is utter crap. They have no concept of QA or even of pride in their work. China seems to have similar problems with QA over there, for hardware. Taiwan used to be bad, but seems to have cleaned up their act (a bit).
Personally, I don't think we should be doing business with PRC at all. The human rights violations are staggering. God damn you Richard Nixon! Also, given that China is an enemy of the US, I don't think it's a good idea for US vital interests to run software made in China.
Not to say there aren't any good programmers in PRC. But if you think Microsoft is a behemoth that makes crappy, undocumented spyware, wait till you see what China, Inc. has in store for you.
802.11b only works over distance when the path isn't impeded. Buildings, mountains, etc in the way will degrade it. In general, an optical circuit has superior performance than a metallic circuit which has better performance than an RF circuit. But there are very good reasons for doing 802.11 networks. One of them is it is hard to legally lay fiber/wire when you are a hobbyist.
Boston area people interested in free 802.11 nets should take a look at http://www.bawia.org
Akamai probably has terabytes of extra capacity these days. You could store your files there. If Akamai wanted a better revenue stream, they might even market such a feature.
Hey, I like cooking too, but theis isn't where I expect to read about it. Let's keep this to technology issues, not movies, cooking, and games, eh? THANKS
and they can still piss off the Chinese royally by flying their cruise missiles into the Chinese Embassy in Belgrad. Maybe they should've been using the civilian GPS?
This missile in question hit what it was told to. Unfortunately, it was given the wrong co-ordinants. Don't blame DoD when CIA is at fault.
I have met Scott Culp in person, at Black Hat in 2000. I have never met a person more brazenly corrupt in my life. He tried to bribe me into dirty tricks against Sun. Any prosecutors interested in pursuing this should contact me.
Gartner and its ilk are mercenaries. They don't care for anything but money and attention in the most immediate sense. There's always another sucker down the road, these guys think. Well, you screwball liars, you and your cohorts on Wall Street, pumped & dumped the entire Internet economy. Neither you nor the big six accounting firms have much credibility left in the tech industry.
Microsoft should release patches, as often is neccessary to patch security holes. Don't pick on them for this. Pick on them for not remembering the KISS rule (Keep it simple, stupid), which would have avoided most of the problems in the first place.
So many posts here seem to say "purple potatoes are nothing new" - when in fact the article is just mentioning that the potato in question is purple. It is NOT saying that this is the only purple potato.
Furthermore, there is nothing to suggest that these potatoes have been genetically engineered, as is claimed above. They were discovered, i.e. they are natural.
We do need a more diverse crops, otherwise we risk a famine if a pest gets out of control. This is not just for potatoes, but other foods as well. The typical american species of food (potato or otherwise) has been bred for maximum size/yield, not for its nutritional value, or ability to grow in bad soil. We're used to using petrochemical based fertilizers and pesticides to grow these giant fruits & vegetables. That means our food source is totally dependant an the agro-chemical industrial complex, which is dependant on the petroleum industry, which is dependant on a the middle-east political situation being kept in a certain state. Gee, I feel like I should be writing for that tv show/book "Connections".
Anyhow, sounds like this purple hardy potato is s good thing. Now, if they could make it grow in salt water.......
Some day in the future, we can look back at http://slashdot.org/article.pl&sid=01/09/11/124520 9 , and read the comments, as the first rumors and news came in, people posted off-topic OH MY GOD type of stories, etc. And the last message on the article was "Last Post" - particularly ominous.
Uh, gzip is all fine and good, except in this case it probably would have made the problem *worse*.
I don't recall them saying that bandwidth was ever a bottleneck. Causing the slash servers to do even *more* processing (ie compression) doesn't seem like it would have helped much.
The idea is, for static content, compress once at the server. However, this could still work for dynamic content. Cache comment additions and add them once every 30 seconds, then gzip.
You should actually test out how much CPU power gzip uses, it's not much. It is well worth the cycles.
Usually, the bottleneck is bandwidth. CPU power has been getting really cheap, and in the case of multiple WWW servers, it isn't hard to scale (and of course the software is free!).
Everyone knows that you should turn off hostname lookups. I was wondering why slashdot would often be some damned slow first thing in the morning -- well there's why. Because the PTR record had expired overnight. Another way we suffer for advertisers. Oh well.
static content can be stored and transmitted in gzip format, to be uncompressed by the browser (all modern browsers support this). HTML coompressed very well -- pages here end up averaging 28% of their original size! This not only saves slashdot bandwidth, but saves it for the end user as well. Some people out there are still using crufty old 28.8 modems, and need every bit of help they can get. Anyhow, do a search for apache mod_gzip and you'll find all you need to know.
>No kidding, we should just let anyone use any >spectrum they want! That's how they do it in >Europe, and everything's just great over there! >Anarchy rules!!
Actually, there are regulations. see http://www.ero.dk/eroweb/tables.html
Backwards laws? such as? Do you mean that the US isn't forcing hams, small businesses, etc. off the bands fast enough for you? 3G wireless promises to be expensive and complex, in addition to needing a lot of bandwidth. Only a handful of companies will have the financial ability to implement it, meaning they will control it. Right now, there are many varied users of that spectrum. 3G means more control of wireless by the telecom Oligopolies. Not a good thing.
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Not a fatal flaw: airships are slow. If someone were to divert an airship, defense forces would have plenty of time to detect and react before you could get the flying bomb anywhere it could cause real damage.
The real flaw with this theory is the wind that you are trying to harness also would toss the blimp around. Now, if you were to HARNESS and CONTROL that 'sail' effect, much like ships of old, you might be able to do something really useful!
OK, I am sure I am probably not the first person to suggest this, but P2P makes the most sense for large files. but of course someone might try to trojan the file. What we need is a cross-platform, open-source p2p with ENFORCED RC5 checking.
What I find really distressing is the number of times I have searched for things such as the linux kernel or openbsd iso's on the late morpheus/kazaa, or gnutella, and not found any. after downloading, I put up the kernel never to have it touched.
Many people don't use gnutella because of the high bandwidth consumption of the porn/warez/mp3 searches going on. What if we were to start a new gnutella network strictly for open source software. maybe network ID "opensource"? I have to admit I don't consider myself an expert on gnutella, maybe someone who is can remark on the merits of this idea.
If I get three other people who respond to this post and will tell me they are willing to be a part of the network, I will put up a node here.
Now, what we need is kernel maintainers (and other project maintainers) to post MD5s in a place that won't be swamped by people using the traditional methods (c2s?) of leeching^h^h^h^h^hdownloading.
Most of the software that comes out of Indian (and some eastern european) Sweat Shops is utter crap. They have no concept of QA or even of pride in their work. China seems to have similar problems with QA over there, for hardware. Taiwan used to be bad, but seems to have cleaned up their act (a bit).
Personally, I don't think we should be doing business with PRC at all. The human rights violations are staggering. God damn you Richard Nixon! Also, given that China is an enemy of the US, I don't think it's a good idea for US vital interests to run software made in China.
Not to say there aren't any good programmers in PRC. But if you think Microsoft is a behemoth that makes crappy, undocumented spyware, wait till you see what China, Inc. has in store for you.
When did you buy them? Do you know if they are still on sale? That's a pretty good price!
802.11b only works over distance when the path isn't impeded. Buildings, mountains, etc in the way will degrade it. In general, an optical circuit has superior performance than a metallic circuit which has better performance than an RF circuit. But there are very good reasons for doing 802.11 networks. One of them is it is hard to legally lay fiber/wire when you are a hobbyist.
Boston area people interested in free 802.11 nets should take a look at http://www.bawia.org
Akamai probably has terabytes of extra capacity these days. You could store your files there. If Akamai wanted a better revenue stream, they might even market such a feature.
Hey, I like cooking too, but theis isn't where I expect to read about it. Let's keep this to technology issues, not movies, cooking, and games, eh? THANKS
You could build a matrix of inductors, hook them up to micro-sized rectifiers, and get DC from random EM fields. Fun!
who's got it? I have to add it to my booty chest of banned warez
This missile in question hit what it was told to. Unfortunately, it was given the wrong co-ordinants. Don't blame DoD when CIA is at fault.
Moderator: Please explain how this is flamebait. Thanks.
I have met Scott Culp in person, at Black Hat in 2000. I have never met a person more brazenly corrupt in my life. He tried to bribe me into dirty tricks against Sun. Any prosecutors interested in pursuing this should contact me.
"Business: Hiawatha Bray thinks Microsoft has a point about laying some blame on those who discover security flaws, then publicize them."
Personally, Bray has always struck me as an idiot so this is nothing new. The last name says it all!
If this is patented, then the patent itself should explain everything.
Funny, the "community" is the same reason I DON'T use freebsd. Maybe there's jerks everywhere and it's just who you (randomly) get exposed to.
In both cases (and OpenBSD), there's certainly some ego-trimming needed.
Gartner and its ilk are mercenaries. They don't care for anything but money and attention in the most immediate sense. There's always another sucker down the road, these guys think. Well, you screwball liars, you and your cohorts on Wall Street, pumped & dumped the entire Internet economy. Neither you nor the big six accounting firms have much credibility left in the tech industry.
Microsoft should release patches, as often is neccessary to patch security holes. Don't pick on them for this. Pick on them for not remembering the KISS rule (Keep it simple, stupid), which would have avoided most of the problems in the first place.
crinkley bindlewurtles -- or however you spell it
So many posts here seem to say "purple potatoes are nothing new" - when in fact the article is just mentioning that the potato in question is purple. It is NOT saying that this is the only purple potato.
Furthermore, there is nothing to suggest that these potatoes have been genetically engineered, as is claimed above. They were discovered, i.e. they are natural.
We do need a more diverse crops, otherwise we risk a famine if a pest gets out of control. This is not just for potatoes, but other foods as well. The typical american species of food (potato or otherwise) has been bred for maximum size/yield, not for its nutritional value, or ability to grow in bad soil. We're used to using petrochemical based fertilizers and pesticides to grow these giant fruits & vegetables. That means our food source is totally dependant an the agro-chemical industrial complex, which is dependant on the petroleum industry, which is dependant on a the middle-east political situation being kept in a certain state. Gee, I feel like I should be writing for that tv show/book "Connections".
Anyhow, sounds like this purple hardy potato is s good thing. Now, if they could make it grow in salt water.......
A couple of minutes ago, slashdot seemed to be down for a few minutes -- i got the "internal configuration error" blah blah -- did anyone else see it?
Some day in the future, we can look back at http://slashdot.org/article.pl&sid=01/09/11/124520 9 , and read the comments, as the first rumors and news came in, people posted off-topic OH MY GOD type of stories, etc. And the last message on the article was "Last Post" - particularly ominous.
I don't recall them saying that bandwidth was ever a bottleneck. Causing the slash servers to do even *more* processing (ie compression) doesn't seem like it would have helped much.
The idea is, for static content, compress once at the server. However, this could still work for dynamic content. Cache comment additions and add them once every 30 seconds, then gzip.
You should actually test out how much CPU power gzip uses, it's not much. It is well worth the cycles.
Usually, the bottleneck is bandwidth. CPU power has been getting really cheap, and in the case of multiple WWW servers, it isn't hard to scale (and of course the software is free!).
Everyone knows that you should turn off hostname lookups. I was wondering why slashdot would often be some damned slow first thing in the morning -- well there's why. Because the PTR record had expired overnight. Another way we suffer for advertisers. Oh well.
static content can be stored and transmitted in gzip format, to be uncompressed by the browser (all modern browsers support this). HTML coompressed very well -- pages here end up averaging 28% of their original size! This not only saves slashdot bandwidth, but saves it for the end user as well. Some people out there are still using crufty old 28.8 modems, and need every bit of help they can get. Anyhow, do a search for apache mod_gzip and you'll find all you need to know.
>No kidding, we should just let anyone use any >spectrum they want! That's how they do it in >Europe, and everything's just great over there! >Anarchy rules!! Actually, there are regulations. see http://www.ero.dk/eroweb/tables.html
Backwards laws? such as? Do you mean that the US isn't forcing hams, small businesses, etc. off the bands fast enough for you? 3G wireless promises to be expensive and complex, in addition to needing a lot of bandwidth. Only a handful of companies will have the financial ability to implement it, meaning they will control it. Right now, there are many varied users of that spectrum. 3G means more control of wireless by the telecom Oligopolies. Not a good thing.
MAC addresses are sniffable, and trivial reprogrammable.