looking at the pictures, they arent as life-like as past games have been. Character faces are very flat, like pre-Renissance (sp?) era paintings. It looks like the game is not taking good advantage on the graphical performance a system like gamecube offers. Nintendo has prided themselves on graphical performance and have strove for better graphics ever since the original 8 bit system came out in '85. I think they're taking a step backwards in graphics technology development by using cartoony graphics in a game series as popular as Zelda.
Dont satellite phones require line-of-sight with the dish? In other words, while this may help bring mobile phone service to remote locations like the sahara or oceanic islands, won't they only work outside?
I found out about it during my college cpu architecture course. It was mentioned in the book for the class, which has been sold back to the bookstore. The book was: David Patterson and John Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, Second Edition, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 1997.
I dont recall what Pentium chip this happened with or when it happened, all I remember is that it did.
I've also been corrected by others on Intel making Windows compilers available for purchase. They do offer compilers and optimizers for purchase. I am assuming it is these compilers that the SPEC data you are viewing was generated from.
they do, and it works well. IIRC, they submitted benchmark results to SPEC where a Pentium chip (not sure what one) smoked several others in many benchmarks. SPEC rejected those benchmarks because Intel used a special proprietery compiler with the tests and not a normal compiler a developer would use.
Hence, Intel has compilers of their own that work very well, but why they aren't made public like this Linux one is, I wish I knew, as it could undermine MS-VC in terms of compiled code performance.
well, by using linux those companies are saving tons of money compared to other systems. Hence, they have more money to spend, and many would probably prefer to spend it on a compiler that would probably build the tightest possible run time assemler code, especially if the company makes products that are not able to leave something to chance by using something like gcc, or require that level of optimization for their programs. Look at other compilers (like MS VCC), those cost around that much too, so I see the cost as no surprise.
i'm sure you recall the scene from the Simpsons where Homer spotted a sign saying "Alcohol Powered Cars" at a car show. Thought bubble appears, showing him a gas station with a gas tank labeled "Gasahol." Taking the nozzle back and forth from the car, he's saying "One for you, one for me, one for you, one for me..........."
During the whole Napster debate (back before Napster had filters), many journalists pointed out that judges often sided with improvements in technology in cases of copyrights and unauthroized reproduction.
When the audio tape recorders were introduced, the RIAA cried foul as it gave people the ability to make their own copies of music. Ruling was based on fair use.
VHS Recorders same deal. Hollywood and television threw a hissy fit and said it gave people the ability to copy shows and movies without authorization. Judgement was based on the fair use laws from the audio tape incident.
There were a few other examples (like the Xerox copy machine), but these were the most relevant.
CD burners have been available for the home market for quite some time now, all the previous cases came out just as the technology was brand new before a significant number of people had access to them. I think the same fair use law will come into play because it takes a significant amount of physical time and effort to duplicate a CD (whether data or music) or assemble a custom CD.
In addition, some members of RIAA are also in the business of building and selling CD-RWs. Sony is the only one I can think of off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are others. I just know my burner is made by Sony.
Ok, before anyone marks me flamebait or something for supporting AOL, this happened many years ago before broadband was widely available (before the AOL-TW merger), during the closing days of pay-by-hour access.
My parents once received an email at their AOL account for alledged violations of their Terms of Service. Turns out my younger brother used some profanity in a chat room and someone reported it. The email contained the log of the chat conversation, when it happened, what room, etc. It basically warned us that should another violation occur, the account would be temporarily disabled, a third violation is termination of the account. But only if the next violation occured within the next few months (dont remember if it was 3 or 6 or something), after that the violation is scratched from the record.
In this case, AOL looked at the evidence and took appropriate steps to issue a warning to the master screen name on the account and what would happen if it occured again. They included the evidence they used to come to the conclusions they did.
I don't know how AOL would respond to accusations of one of their users violating DMCA in today's world, especially with Time Warner being in the same bed as them. I'm no longer an AOL user (now an @Home user), and frankly dont care. I simply wanted to show what it used to be like in the good ol' days on the Internet.
I simply did a search on google for a quick link to explain what an alcohol/ethanol powered car was and it's benefits. The Clinton Administration focused on electric cars. They wanted car makers to develop those types of vehicles for the mass market. Unfortunately, car makers and researchers are finding that electric cars are not as feasible as they once thought they were, hence the reason alcohol as an alternative to gasoline. Brazil is one of only a few (if not only) countries out there to embrace such a vehicle, as they have somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 million alcohol cars.
The reason I say that GWB won't do much about alcohol (and other alternative fuels) powered cars is because of his own corporate interests. He is a former oil company executive and during his tenure as Governer of Texas, he showed his support for oil companies multiple times, and he has already shown such support as President. Hence he (and his administration) will not be embracing alternative fuels, as they will be hurting the oil industry in doing so.
I think it's good to see that there are some governments out there not looking out for corporate interests when it comes to a person's well being. While the Swiss company will probably sue out the wazoo against the government of Brazil for patent infringement, I beleive Brazil in this case has set an excellent precedent regarding patents on medicine that hold the potential to keep someone who is terminally ill from dying.
Brazil has also set many other precedents, including one that US (and the rest of the world) has to yet catch on with - clean emission alcohol powered cars. Unfortunately, because of who we have at 1600 Pennsylvania, I don't expect many of these to be around until after he leaves office.
ok, thanks for the info. The thing I heard was simply a rumor from a co-worker who thought that because the packet containing the http GET request was considerably large, it potentially caused problems on some routers (Maybe he thought the malformed URI meant the packet was bloated or something) It sounded a little fishy to me because the concept of spliting packets up during their trip has been commonplace among routing systems long before the internet tookoff in the early 90s.
the side effects some cisco routers became vulnerable to were (IIRC) the large packets being sent by code red to possible IIS servers, plus some routers simply couldn't handle the amount of extra traffic code red creates, especially as more machines behind a router become infected. Much like the slashdot effect - sometimes it isn't the server that is to blame, it's the connection the server has to the internet from routers, firewalls, etc.
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Qwest is probably standing behind some small line in the fine print of their user agreement that says "Qwest will not be held responsible for interruptions in service," meaning they will not provide refunds in the event their service is temporarily offline or has other problems.
Personally, my cable modem is sometime offline, but it's usually during the day while I'm at work hence I dont notice.
Outside of being just plain bizarre, mp3.com could use a few legal tricks. For example, they could say the full set of mp3.com users is completely disjoint from the full set of napster users (meaning if someone is a mp3.com user, they're not a napster user and vice versa).
Failing that, they could point out that because you have to own a CD before you can download the corresponding mp3s from mp3.com, why would a someone who uses Napster even bother to buy the CD just to get the mp3 from mp3.com, when all along they could just get the mp3 from Napster, regardless of whether they own the CD.
yeah, my apoligies on that bad link in the post at the top of this thread. I hit reply and gave a more correct link.
At grc's site, you'll find some interesting stuff about MS and their understandings of computer security. I tried submitting that to/., which got rejected. Maybe if others also see those stories Steve wrote and also submit them to/., we can have yet another chance to mock MS.
anonymous because of the database crash that wiped out several hours of data today
Are we going to see a post detailing today's slashdot database adventures? eg- what the probable cause was, what data was lost (besides an article about something being "always on"), what's being done to prevent such errorsi nthe future?
48 hrs when arrested by a local police dept, but this is the FBI were dealing with. Recall how long it took them to get some paperwork to Tim McVeigh, it is here you will find your answer.
Filtering spam is one thing. A lot of people demand it of their ISP because it is a problem they are capable of seeing.
Monitoring http traffic is only the tip of the iceberg, but is not the problem. By their nature, ddos attacks are intentional sendings of junk traffic to a specific IP address in a n attempt to prevent legitimate network traffic from getting through. In Steve Gibson's case (see my link above), a script kiddie assembled 500 compromised Windows 9x machines from broadband connections and had them all fire off a million packets each of 64K in size all at UDP port 666 (along with ICMP ping packets to further fill the pipe), effectively filling grc.com's bandwidth and denying legit connections to/from grc. In a span of several hours on one of the attacks, grc's ISP blocked a total of over 4.3 billion packets. But because the packets were 64K in size, the packets had to be broken apart and reassembled. After the packets were broken apart, this created over 500 billion packet "chunks."
McAfee is building a firewall product that will be programmed to pick up on this type of activity and filter out that traffic, protecting the network behind that firewall without the human intervention that Steve Gibson required.
But as someone else pointed out- what about a site being slashdotted? A site getting slashdotted will receive around 1000 hits per minute all at TCP port 80, a standard port, with request packets being less than 1k apiece and a different set of 1000 machines each minute. In grc's DoS attacks, all the attacks were directed at UDP port 666, the packets 64K in size, and all the attacking machines were the same and never changing. After some thought, you can see how this is certainly inordinate in even rare circumstances.
Hence, while an ISP admin says monitoring http traffic is beyond the scope of their duties, protecting computers on their network is still one, particularly from known attacks like DoS. Many ISPs are blocking TCP port 80 (the standard http port) because of Code Red, meaning those ISPs show interest in protecting their customer's computers. Likewise to ISPs filtering spam. Unfortunately, these ISPs are few in number.
The reason I bring up the warning in "ISPs may be required to do work" is that in Gibson's situation, he contacted the ISPs (@home, RoadRunner, Earthlink, etc) of where the majority of the compromised computers were attacking him, and they refused to do anything or even listen to him. This was despite Gibson being an expert in firewall technology, meaning he knows what he's talking about. Gibson's own corporate ISP gave him the run-around during the first few attacks (eventually, the support engineers gave him their home contact info). Gibson basically demonstrated that even though ISPs are capable of preventing problems, they wont because it's not in the interest of their bottom line (profits). I make the comment "may require work" because in Gibson's story, we see several ISPs refusing to do anything even out of being good sumaritans. Therefore, how can we expect ISPs to install the McAfee anti-ddos firewall (discussed by that ZDnet article above) on their network?
most of the ddos troubles could not be prevented by patching correctly, as some have exploited holes for which there is no patch, hence the isps can help by intelligently disallowing useless incoming traffic. being the company grc is, I'm 100% sure they had all their patches up to date, yet what could they have done ahead of time to prevent being hit with a DDoS?
I trust my isp with my data. I pay them to transport it from my machine to another. Who knows what they can already do with it? Many blocked tcp port 80 because of code red. I'm on a cable modem, anyone on my cable segment with the right equipment can pickup on my traffic, hence I'm not concerned if someone sees my data, I encrpyt the stuff I dont want others to see. Besides, the isp would be watching the entire network, not just me, and they would be filtering for obvious junk traffic directed at a single IP in a possible ddos attack.
A site being slashdotted would be allowed because the traffic is from tens of thousands (maybe even millions) of IP addresses (as opposed to a few hundred from the typical ddos attack) all going after tcp port 80 (which is a standard port, as opposed to UDP port 5785, which isn't a standard port for anything afaik)
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looking at the pictures, they arent as life-like as past games have been. Character faces are very flat, like pre-Renissance (sp?) era paintings. It looks like the game is not taking good advantage on the graphical performance a system like gamecube offers. Nintendo has prided themselves on graphical performance and have strove for better graphics ever since the original 8 bit system came out in '85. I think they're taking a step backwards in graphics technology development by using cartoony graphics in a game series as popular as Zelda.
Dont satellite phones require line-of-sight with the dish? In other words, while this may help bring mobile phone service to remote locations like the sahara or oceanic islands, won't they only work outside?
I found out about it during my college cpu architecture course. It was mentioned in the book for the class, which has been sold back to the bookstore. The book was: David Patterson and John Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, Second Edition, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 1997.
I dont recall what Pentium chip this happened with or when it happened, all I remember is that it did.
I've also been corrected by others on Intel making Windows compilers available for purchase. They do offer compilers and optimizers for purchase. I am assuming it is these compilers that the SPEC data you are viewing was generated from.
they do, and it works well. IIRC, they submitted benchmark results to SPEC where a Pentium chip (not sure what one) smoked several others in many benchmarks. SPEC rejected those benchmarks because Intel used a special proprietery compiler with the tests and not a normal compiler a developer would use.
Hence, Intel has compilers of their own that work very well, but why they aren't made public like this Linux one is, I wish I knew, as it could undermine MS-VC in terms of compiled code performance.
well, by using linux those companies are saving tons of money compared to other systems. Hence, they have more money to spend, and many would probably prefer to spend it on a compiler that would probably build the tightest possible run time assemler code, especially if the company makes products that are not able to leave something to chance by using something like gcc, or require that level of optimization for their programs. Look at other compilers (like MS VCC), those cost around that much too, so I see the cost as no surprise.
i'm sure you recall the scene from the Simpsons where Homer spotted a sign saying "Alcohol Powered Cars" at a car show. Thought bubble appears, showing him a gas station with a gas tank labeled "Gasahol." Taking the nozzle back and forth from the car, he's saying "One for you, one for me, one for you, one for me ..........."
During the whole Napster debate (back before Napster had filters), many journalists pointed out that judges often sided with improvements in technology in cases of copyrights and unauthroized reproduction.
When the audio tape recorders were introduced, the RIAA cried foul as it gave people the ability to make their own copies of music. Ruling was based on fair use.
VHS Recorders same deal. Hollywood and television threw a hissy fit and said it gave people the ability to copy shows and movies without authorization. Judgement was based on the fair use laws from the audio tape incident.
There were a few other examples (like the Xerox copy machine), but these were the most relevant.
CD burners have been available for the home market for quite some time now, all the previous cases came out just as the technology was brand new before a significant number of people had access to them. I think the same fair use law will come into play because it takes a significant amount of physical time and effort to duplicate a CD (whether data or music) or assemble a custom CD.
In addition, some members of RIAA are also in the business of building and selling CD-RWs. Sony is the only one I can think of off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are others. I just know my burner is made by Sony.
you must mean PL/I, which was developed by IBM. COBOL was something that came mostly out the mind of Admiral Grace Hopper of the Navy.
You mention folks from redmond stealing Nintendo thunder. IIRC, Nintendo's north america headquarters are also located in Redmond.
Ok, before anyone marks me flamebait or something for supporting AOL, this happened many years ago before broadband was widely available (before the AOL-TW merger), during the closing days of pay-by-hour access.
My parents once received an email at their AOL account for alledged violations of their Terms of Service. Turns out my younger brother used some profanity in a chat room and someone reported it. The email contained the log of the chat conversation, when it happened, what room, etc. It basically warned us that should another violation occur, the account would be temporarily disabled, a third violation is termination of the account. But only if the next violation occured within the next few months (dont remember if it was 3 or 6 or something), after that the violation is scratched from the record.
In this case, AOL looked at the evidence and took appropriate steps to issue a warning to the master screen name on the account and what would happen if it occured again. They included the evidence they used to come to the conclusions they did.
I don't know how AOL would respond to accusations of one of their users violating DMCA in today's world, especially with Time Warner being in the same bed as them. I'm no longer an AOL user (now an @Home user), and frankly dont care. I simply wanted to show what it used to be like in the good ol' days on the Internet.
I simply did a search on google for a quick link to explain what an alcohol/ethanol powered car was and it's benefits. The Clinton Administration focused on electric cars. They wanted car makers to develop those types of vehicles for the mass market. Unfortunately, car makers and researchers are finding that electric cars are not as feasible as they once thought they were, hence the reason alcohol as an alternative to gasoline. Brazil is one of only a few (if not only) countries out there to embrace such a vehicle, as they have somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 million alcohol cars.
The reason I say that GWB won't do much about alcohol (and other alternative fuels) powered cars is because of his own corporate interests. He is a former oil company executive and during his tenure as Governer of Texas, he showed his support for oil companies multiple times, and he has already shown such support as President. Hence he (and his administration) will not be embracing alternative fuels, as they will be hurting the oil industry in doing so.
I think it's good to see that there are some governments out there not looking out for corporate interests when it comes to a person's well being. While the Swiss company will probably sue out the wazoo against the government of Brazil for patent infringement, I beleive Brazil in this case has set an excellent precedent regarding patents on medicine that hold the potential to keep someone who is terminally ill from dying.
Brazil has also set many other precedents, including one that US (and the rest of the world) has to yet catch on with - clean emission alcohol powered cars. Unfortunately, because of who we have at 1600 Pennsylvania, I don't expect many of these to be around until after he leaves office.
ok, thanks for the info. The thing I heard was simply a rumor from a co-worker who thought that because the packet containing the http GET request was considerably large, it potentially caused problems on some routers (Maybe he thought the malformed URI meant the packet was bloated or something) It sounded a little fishy to me because the concept of spliting packets up during their trip has been commonplace among routing systems long before the internet tookoff in the early 90s.
the side effects some cisco routers became vulnerable to were (IIRC) the large packets being sent by code red to possible IIS servers, plus some routers simply couldn't handle the amount of extra traffic code red creates, especially as more machines behind a router become infected. Much like the slashdot effect - sometimes it isn't the server that is to blame, it's the connection the server has to the internet from routers, firewalls, etc.
Qwest is probably standing behind some small line in the fine print of their user agreement that says "Qwest will not be held responsible for interruptions in service," meaning they will not provide refunds in the event their service is temporarily offline or has other problems.
Personally, my cable modem is sometime offline, but it's usually during the day while I'm at work hence I dont notice.
Outside of being just plain bizarre, mp3.com could use a few legal tricks. For example, they could say the full set of mp3.com users is completely disjoint from the full set of napster users (meaning if someone is a mp3.com user, they're not a napster user and vice versa).
Failing that, they could point out that because you have to own a CD before you can download the corresponding mp3s from mp3.com, why would a someone who uses Napster even bother to buy the CD just to get the mp3 from mp3.com, when all along they could just get the mp3 from Napster, regardless of whether they own the CD.
yeah, my apoligies on that bad link in the post at the top of this thread. I hit reply and gave a more correct link.
/., which got rejected. Maybe if others also see those stories Steve wrote and also submit them to /., we can have yet another chance to mock MS.
At grc's site, you'll find some interesting stuff about MS and their understandings of computer security. I tried submitting that to
anonymous because of the database crash that wiped out several hours of data today
Are we going to see a post detailing today's slashdot database adventures? eg- what the probable cause was, what data was lost (besides an article about something being "always on"), what's being done to prevent such errorsi nthe future?
he may have favored dmca, but remember who he says *really* invented the internet. some say it's because the internet is based on AL-GORE-ithms.
48 hrs when arrested by a local police dept, but this is the FBI were dealing with. Recall how long it took them to get some paperwork to Tim McVeigh, it is here you will find your answer.
Filtering spam is one thing. A lot of people demand it of their ISP because it is a problem they are capable of seeing.
Monitoring http traffic is only the tip of the iceberg, but is not the problem. By their nature, ddos attacks are intentional sendings of junk traffic to a specific IP address in a n attempt to prevent legitimate network traffic from getting through. In Steve Gibson's case (see my link above), a script kiddie assembled 500 compromised Windows 9x machines from broadband connections and had them all fire off a million packets each of 64K in size all at UDP port 666 (along with ICMP ping packets to further fill the pipe), effectively filling grc.com's bandwidth and denying legit connections to/from grc. In a span of several hours on one of the attacks, grc's ISP blocked a total of over 4.3 billion packets. But because the packets were 64K in size, the packets had to be broken apart and reassembled. After the packets were broken apart, this created over 500 billion packet "chunks."
McAfee is building a firewall product that will be programmed to pick up on this type of activity and filter out that traffic, protecting the network behind that firewall without the human intervention that Steve Gibson required.
But as someone else pointed out- what about a site being slashdotted? A site getting slashdotted will receive around 1000 hits per minute all at TCP port 80, a standard port, with request packets being less than 1k apiece and a different set of 1000 machines each minute. In grc's DoS attacks, all the attacks were directed at UDP port 666, the packets 64K in size, and all the attacking machines were the same and never changing. After some thought, you can see how this is certainly inordinate in even rare circumstances.
Hence, while an ISP admin says monitoring http traffic is beyond the scope of their duties, protecting computers on their network is still one, particularly from known attacks like DoS. Many ISPs are blocking TCP port 80 (the standard http port) because of Code Red, meaning those ISPs show interest in protecting their customer's computers. Likewise to ISPs filtering spam. Unfortunately, these ISPs are few in number.
The reason I bring up the warning in "ISPs may be required to do work" is that in Gibson's situation, he contacted the ISPs (@home, RoadRunner, Earthlink, etc) of where the majority of the compromised computers were attacking him, and they refused to do anything or even listen to him. This was despite Gibson being an expert in firewall technology, meaning he knows what he's talking about. Gibson's own corporate ISP gave him the run-around during the first few attacks (eventually, the support engineers gave him their home contact info). Gibson basically demonstrated that even though ISPs are capable of preventing problems, they wont because it's not in the interest of their bottom line (profits). I make the comment "may require work" because in Gibson's story, we see several ISPs refusing to do anything even out of being good sumaritans. Therefore, how can we expect ISPs to install the McAfee anti-ddos firewall (discussed by that ZDnet article above) on their network?
[wishful_thinking] they're able to give each resident their own copy of Linux if they wanted to as well. [/wishful_thinking]
so how long until slashdot gets one of these or worse, this?
most of the ddos troubles could not be prevented by patching correctly, as some have exploited holes for which there is no patch, hence the isps can help by intelligently disallowing useless incoming traffic. being the company grc is, I'm 100% sure they had all their patches up to date, yet what could they have done ahead of time to prevent being hit with a DDoS?
I trust my isp with my data. I pay them to transport it from my machine to another. Who knows what they can already do with it? Many blocked tcp port 80 because of code red. I'm on a cable modem, anyone on my cable segment with the right equipment can pickup on my traffic, hence I'm not concerned if someone sees my data, I encrpyt the stuff I dont want others to see. Besides, the isp would be watching the entire network, not just me, and they would be filtering for obvious junk traffic directed at a single IP in a possible ddos attack.
A site being slashdotted would be allowed because the traffic is from tens of thousands (maybe even millions) of IP addresses (as opposed to a few hundred from the typical ddos attack) all going after tcp port 80 (which is a standard port, as opposed to UDP port 5785, which isn't a standard port for anything afaik)
The previous case from 2 years ago Taco speaks of can be found here