Every time there's a story about a connection dying or a machine crashing we see a flood of posts that end lik
It was funny _once_. Maybe. Be more creative. I'm trying to waste my day at work reading/. so could you people make up some new ones? And I'm not going to even delve into the fact that thanks to the ways posting content to a website works the failure wouldn't look remotely like this... we're not all on modems connecting to a BBS.
You're also assuming that the devices that go down affect most other people trying to connect to the target. If the devices on your routes to the target that go down first are the ones closer to the attacker (an assumption, but not a crazy one) then this is kind of a non-issue. The attacker and people "near" him may not be able to access the site, but it completely depends on what fails first as to whether the target site is offline to the world as a whole.
How about an option to just turn the damn spam filter off? I have some business emails routed through gmail for reasons that aren't worth going into, and I'd much rather my POP3 client download and then filter ALL messages than have to go through the web interface once in a while to find the misclassified ones. And when I say "Not Spam" about a logwatch email from a server, how about you remember that and not classify the daily logwatch emails FROM THE SAME ADDRESS as spam in the future?
I wish I had mod points right now. The point is not free speech. It is the use of other people's resources. You are allowed to say whatever you want on the town square, but the tax payers don't have to buy you a megaphone.
It's really nothing new, and there is no real solution other than you have to trust someone at some point. For an entertaining paper about this exact problem in the software world, check out "Reflections on Trusting Trust" by Ken Thompson
I can't disagree with most of your post, but we didn't exactly make peace with Russia. It more collapsed under it's own weight and we made peace with what was left.
There's something else to tout McCain for, his stance on torture. It's nice to hear someone just flat out say torture is bad and we shouldn't be doing it. Don't hem and haw about how what is torture and what isn't. Just say no. It doesn't get you reliable information and it's kind of hard to hold moral high ground with some guy blindfolded and strapped to a table in the next room.
I've never seen the performance numbers for sequential vs random read on flash drives, but you have to do pretty damn bad to get beat by random access on a standard hard drive. If you look at the the units used you'll get the idea. Your average random access on a standard drive is based on the average seek time which is measured in small milliseconds (4 ms, 8ms). Access time for flash drives is measured in double-digit nanoseconds (e.g. 60ns). That's 5 orders of magnitude difference. Even if the access time for random reads on flash was 100 times worse than it's average access time those reads would STILL be 1000 times faster than from a hard drive.
I don't think people realize just HOW slow drives are compared to the rest of the machine. Sure we programmers know the disk is "slow" but it really puts it in perspective to know it's a 100000 times slower than an alternative tech.
No, and we're doing them any favors by pushing everyone through high school regardless of ability either. My mother works at a community college, and the number of kids that have to go straight into remedial english and math is appalling. But we don't want to hurt anyone's feelings... no, it's better to let the real world do that. Then there's no one that can be pointed to as "the problem".
Here's something else I don't understand. What is this country's aversion to vocational schools/training? We as a society seem to look down on such training, but I'll gladly pay someone many tens of dollars per hour to make my car go, make my AC work, fix plumbing, rewire my house, add an addition to the dwelling, etc. There is nothing wrong with this. You don't like school, but think cars are fun? Hello mechanic work. It just seems silly, these people are as important to our economy and every day life as the surgeons.
You mean someone else has seen that terrible film? I swear, I'll never see Sean Connery the same again. *shudder* And then there's the wedding dress....
You've clearly never done tech support. In windows you're lucky if the person can click on a button when you ask, and avoid it when you don't. Ask them to open up a command line? You're. Screwed.
You can also sterilize cuts with it.... although it does burn like a hell. Yes, I've done it. Have the scars from landing in 6" of water on top of an oyster bar. Purel and electrical tape was all we had....
Actually, you may be left out in the cold. Dell tends to use some fairly low-grade components to keep costs down. Personally, I wouldn't buy a Dell without the hardware warranty, although with their 1 day support, I've been quite happy with my laptop and business desktops.
Well, to work with a remote you need some sort of an IR receiver. And if the machine needs to control a set-top box of some sort (direct tv for example) you may need an IR emitter as well. Coincidentally, I happen to sell such things: http://iguanaworks.net/products.psp
Yes it's a shameless plug, but when you throw up a softball like this I just have take a swing at it.
Well, just a guess, but I'd say customers who want to buy Linux are likely geeks willing to tinker. On the other hand, a business may have higher demands that things work out of the box. If this is the case then testing compatibility through desktop systems might make more sense.
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Every time there's a story about a connection dying or a machine crashing we see a flood of posts that end lik
It was funny _once_. Maybe. Be more creative. I'm trying to waste my day at work reading /. so could you people make up some new ones? And I'm not going to even delve into the fact that thanks to the ways posting content to a website works the failure wouldn't look remotely like this... we're not all on modems connecting to a BBS.
You're also assuming that the devices that go down affect most other people trying to connect to the target. If the devices on your routes to the target that go down first are the ones closer to the attacker (an assumption, but not a crazy one) then this is kind of a non-issue. The attacker and people "near" him may not be able to access the site, but it completely depends on what fails first as to whether the target site is offline to the world as a whole.
$41000 is not six figures... who shunned math again?
Octal, duh.
How about an option to just turn the damn spam filter off? I have some business emails routed through gmail for reasons that aren't worth going into, and I'd much rather my POP3 client download and then filter ALL messages than have to go through the web interface once in a while to find the misclassified ones. And when I say "Not Spam" about a logwatch email from a server, how about you remember that and not classify the daily logwatch emails FROM THE SAME ADDRESS as spam in the future?
I wish I had mod points right now. The point is not free speech. It is the use of other people's resources. You are allowed to say whatever you want on the town square, but the tax payers don't have to buy you a megaphone.
hunting is out.... for now.
It's really nothing new, and there is no real solution other than you have to trust someone at some point. For an entertaining paper about this exact problem in the software world, check out "Reflections on Trusting Trust" by Ken Thompson
You know, you don't have to show the entire sheep.
Seriously! I mean, where's the mystery these days?
Good for you! Way to be an individual, anonymous coward.
I was with you until the "organic crops are less safe." I agree with the lack of arable land and water issue, but where does the less safe come from?
The occupation of India was the best thing that ever happened to British cuisine.
I can't disagree with most of your post, but we didn't exactly make peace with Russia. It more collapsed under it's own weight and we made peace with what was left.
By god, this is america, if we can make a river catch fire we sure as hell can make the air burn....
There's something else to tout McCain for, his stance on torture. It's nice to hear someone just flat out say torture is bad and we shouldn't be doing it. Don't hem and haw about how what is torture and what isn't. Just say no. It doesn't get you reliable information and it's kind of hard to hold moral high ground with some guy blindfolded and strapped to a table in the next room.
I've never seen the performance numbers for sequential vs random read on flash drives, but you have to do pretty damn bad to get beat by random access on a standard hard drive. If you look at the the units used you'll get the idea. Your average random access on a standard drive is based on the average seek time which is measured in small milliseconds (4 ms, 8ms). Access time for flash drives is measured in double-digit nanoseconds (e.g. 60ns). That's 5 orders of magnitude difference. Even if the access time for random reads on flash was 100 times worse than it's average access time those reads would STILL be 1000 times faster than from a hard drive.
I don't think people realize just HOW slow drives are compared to the rest of the machine. Sure we programmers know the disk is "slow" but it really puts it in perspective to know it's a 100000 times slower than an alternative tech.
No, and we're doing them any favors by pushing everyone through high school regardless of ability either. My mother works at a community college, and the number of kids that have to go straight into remedial english and math is appalling. But we don't want to hurt anyone's feelings... no, it's better to let the real world do that. Then there's no one that can be pointed to as "the problem".
Here's something else I don't understand. What is this country's aversion to vocational schools/training? We as a society seem to look down on such training, but I'll gladly pay someone many tens of dollars per hour to make my car go, make my AC work, fix plumbing, rewire my house, add an addition to the dwelling, etc. There is nothing wrong with this. You don't like school, but think cars are fun? Hello mechanic work. It just seems silly, these people are as important to our economy and every day life as the surgeons.
You mean someone else has seen that terrible film? I swear, I'll never see Sean Connery the same again. *shudder* And then there's the wedding dress....
I wouldn't want to be born there either, but don't you think the death penalty is a bit harsh for being an Iowa native?
You've clearly never done tech support. In windows you're lucky if the person can click on a button when you ask, and avoid it when you don't. Ask them to open up a command line? You're. Screwed.
You can also sterilize cuts with it.... although it does burn like a hell. Yes, I've done it. Have the scars from landing in 6" of water on top of an oyster bar. Purel and electrical tape was all we had....
You care about the price per mile, not gallon. If it costs me $5/gallon to fill up, but the 300 mile tank holds 5 gallons I'm still a happy camper.
Actually, you may be left out in the cold. Dell tends to use some fairly low-grade components to keep costs down. Personally, I wouldn't buy a Dell without the hardware warranty, although with their 1 day support, I've been quite happy with my laptop and business desktops.
Well, to work with a remote you need some sort of an IR receiver. And if the machine needs to control a set-top box of some sort (direct tv for example) you may need an IR emitter as well. Coincidentally, I happen to sell such things: http://iguanaworks.net/products.psp
Yes it's a shameless plug, but when you throw up a softball like this I just have take a swing at it.
Well, just a guess, but I'd say customers who want to buy Linux are likely geeks willing to tinker. On the other hand, a business may have higher demands that things work out of the box. If this is the case then testing compatibility through desktop systems might make more sense.