You mean creating a distributed RBL list? That might work and would alleviate some of the problems with DDOS attacks, but Distributed.net and SETI@Home technologies are really designed for distributed _processing_, and RBLs are just not that processer intensive. I suspect that we will start seeing more distributed RBL type lists in the future though, it's about the only defense one has against massive zombie based DDOS attacks.
Well, good thing the didn't try to land it on Pluto and set the whole planet on fire. You might want to take some nuclear physics at some point as well, it is quite enlightening to learn what being nuclear really means. Hint: It doesn't involve the magical ability to blow up everything it touches.
In fact I've never seen an ATX mobo that disabled the 5 second powerdown. No matter how badly a machine is wedged, 5 seconds is all you need to bring it down. I really don't see why everybody makes such a huge deal out of this, unless they have to run down the aisles in a lab or something shutting each machine off by hand for some reason. (Hint: this should not be the case as it would not flush the buffers on any modern filesystem or in the disk cache before shutdown, it's bad practice for normal use. If it's an emergency, you can flip the switch on the power supply (if it has one) or on the power strip.
Great. BTW, what is the cost of printing the entire internet in pamphlet form 1000 times and distributing it to poor Indian farmers? Unless you plan to know in advance all of the information they want to know, how are you going to print these pamphlets?
Besides, even if the printing is cheap (not a given), distributing tons of printed material in areas with poor infastructure is problematic at best.
It is slightly worrysome to even good admins. Security comes in layers, so even if your security isn't breached with the loss of one layer, it does weaken the overall security picture. Even if you're pretty sure your setup is unhackable, there's no reason to make it any easier on an intruder by advertising exactly what configuration of hardware and software you use.
I love the smell of trolls in the morning. I bet your employer will love reporting your taxable income to the IRS with a fradulant SSN. I guess it is true that you're identity will be protected if you keep all of your money in a big wad of unmarked nonsequental bills under your matress, but banks offer other services beyond mere identiy theft that you may be interested in.
Oh, you forgot one thing. Make sure you never ever give out your true name, no matter who it is. Once they have your real name they'll own you. Also, make sure to use the heavy duty aluminum foil, the regular stuff doesn't block the mind-reading rays for crap.
The point is that you _can't_ give money directly to the pure research folks, because that's the first thing Congress cuts when the budget gets thin. Military projects are easier to justify to Congress and are less likely to be cut before they're ready. It's also much much harder to justify spending that money in the first place, as people view pure research as "pork".
If you go into a BestBuy or something, there are two distinct types of CDr media. "Data" CDrs which are US$0.05 each and "Music" CDrs that are US$0.50 each. The Music discs have a few bits burned on them that lets them be used in those standalone CD duplictators, but are otherwise identical. Perhaps this is what they're talking about?
Just because she didn't rip the MP3s to a CD doesn't mean she doesn't own the CD? I know people who download a couple of MP3s, discover they enjoy the band, and buy the album. In this case they would be in posession of MP3s not ripped by themselves and yet in posession of the official CD. I won't even elaborate on the people who have crappy (often OEM) CD-ROMs that have lousy ripping capabilities and have to download their MP3s off of the internet to get decent quality. Worse, some CDs have copy protection cruft on them that forces people to go online to get their MP3s from people who know how to defeat the copy protection, even though they own the CD.
Are you planning to eat these batteries or something? I'd imagine the bacteria would be prevented from spreading by being outside of it's natual habitat, underground.
I've got a scary fact for you. All of the surfaces around you are covered in bacteria. Even that chair, even your bottle of soap, even the water faucets. You cant get away from them. They're everywhere. If you aren't in a full fledged panic yet, you might remember that humans have lived with bactera for as long as their have been humans. The vast majority of them are harmless to humans.
It's also unlikly that a company would release a battery that killed everyone who bought it, and traditional batteries aren't exactly nice to the environment, so the bar is not set very high for these things to be more eco-friendly.
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I run the same Java apps on Windows and FreeBSD all the time. Most good apps have no trouble crossing platforms. The only major sticking point is Swing or (especially) AWT, which are implemented with varying degrees of quality across platforms.
Especially when you consider how the original VCRs didn't have the long play modes (LP and EP), so each tape was limited to 2 hours. At $10 a tape, it would cost you $1710 to record as much as this PVR. Of course it's not 1980 anymore so this isn't really relevant.
I don't know. That seems like a lot of parity errors to me. I used to run parity memory on my old PII-400 and I saw (I think) 3 SBEs in 5 years. On my new machine I decided to go nonparity because it just didn't seem to be worth the cost. Also, the Nforce chipsets apparently don't support parity memory according to the manual.
Because once you have a free version out there, people will be hesitant to upgrade to the pay version, even if it is a bit better. Look at FreeAgent for example. Once you have the GPL version out there, it's never going to go away, and there is a good chance that once you start charging for the code, someone will take over the free version and start mirroring your new features.
Yeah, these guys should strive for the level of quality found on the comics page of your local paper where the jokes are always fresh and the characters interesting...
If you hadn't noticed, 90% of the comics page is stuck in a rut so big it's been reclassified as a box canyon. It seems that paper editors choose the least offensive most watered down cheap fare they can find for the comics page. This practice has turned the whole thing into a tremendous waste of time, as the same few jokes are told over and over again by the same old tired characters.
so, what are the Lockhearts up to this week? Fighting again? Andy Capp is in a bar or falling down drunk? BC is preaching again? Ooh! The Family Circus has another one of those dotted line things.
In fact, there is a growing community online that uses car engines in airplanes for exactly the reasons you listed. Subaru engines seem to be popular, although people have used engines from Mazda, Ford, and even Chevy.
Yes, because we have seen what happens to people when they make the people in power angry. That's why Slashdotters are sensitive to legal issues with whatever they do. They don't want to be locked away for 20 years because some scumbag found a technicality (he swapped the order of his PCI cards! That was forbidden by the EULA! DMCA!).
It is also important to raise people's awareness of EULAs before they become even more rediculous. The consumer already gets the short end of the stick with most EULAs, there's no reason to give even more power to the companies.
Yeah, there's a world of difference between buying a personal jet from a private company that must be flightworthy for dozens or hundreds of flights a year and comply with acres of FAA regulations before they even get off the ground. Not to mention the high markup on those jets.
These rockets are being built with more or less volunteer time and by people who are willing to scrounge for parts and look long and hard for bargains. I think you'd find that the raw materials that go into a Learjet aren't all that expensive (steel by the pound, etc...), but the labor costs, health plans, salespeople comissions, buildings, paperclips, etc... add considerably to the cost of the final product.
The quote about making rockets the same way we make software reminds me of another quote:
"If we built houses the way we build software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization."
- U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary John J. Hamre, in testimony before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, June, 1998 (Attr Gerald Weinberg)
Unfortunatly, unlike software, you can't just reboot rockets that crash.
The REAL solution doesn't lie in the software or the hardware; it lies in the users. Find a way to increase mankind's collective intelligence and a lot of these sorts of problems will go away.
You are right! It's time to kill all of the stupid people, they're dragging down our average intelligence. Maybe you could write a worm that marks everybody who clicks on random attachments in emails or is still infected with Code Red/NIMDA.
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You mean creating a distributed RBL list? That might work and would alleviate some of the problems with DDOS attacks, but Distributed.net and SETI@Home technologies are really designed for distributed _processing_, and RBLs are just not that processer intensive. I suspect that we will start seeing more distributed RBL type lists in the future though, it's about the only defense one has against massive zombie based DDOS attacks.
Damn, I don't know if even *I* could listen to internet radio for _8_ days a week. I think I'd have to give it a rest on Smaturday.
More importantly, how do you put those yellow "don't look into the laser nitwit" stickers on a single atom?
Well, good thing the didn't try to land it on Pluto and set the whole planet on fire. You might want to take some nuclear physics at some point as well, it is quite enlightening to learn what being nuclear really means. Hint: It doesn't involve the magical ability to blow up everything it touches.
Then you should try holding it in.
In fact I've never seen an ATX mobo that disabled the 5 second powerdown. No matter how badly a machine is wedged, 5 seconds is all you need to bring it down. I really don't see why everybody makes such a huge deal out of this, unless they have to run down the aisles in a lab or something shutting each machine off by hand for some reason. (Hint: this should not be the case as it would not flush the buffers on any modern filesystem or in the disk cache before shutdown, it's bad practice for normal use. If it's an emergency, you can flip the switch on the power supply (if it has one) or on the power strip.
Great. BTW, what is the cost of printing the entire internet in pamphlet form 1000 times and distributing it to poor Indian farmers? Unless you plan to know in advance all of the information they want to know, how are you going to print these pamphlets?
Besides, even if the printing is cheap (not a given), distributing tons of printed material in areas with poor infastructure is problematic at best.
It is slightly worrysome to even good admins. Security comes in layers, so even if your security isn't breached with the loss of one layer, it does weaken the overall security picture. Even if you're pretty sure your setup is unhackable, there's no reason to make it any easier on an intruder by advertising exactly what configuration of hardware and software you use.
That's a nice ideal, but that is not the way the world works. Sorry.
I love the smell of trolls in the morning. I bet your employer will love reporting your taxable income to the IRS with a fradulant SSN. I guess it is true that you're identity will be protected if you keep all of your money in a big wad of unmarked nonsequental bills under your matress, but banks offer other services beyond mere identiy theft that you may be interested in.
Oh, you forgot one thing. Make sure you never ever give out your true name, no matter who it is. Once they have your real name they'll own you. Also, make sure to use the heavy duty aluminum foil, the regular stuff doesn't block the mind-reading rays for crap.
The point is that you _can't_ give money directly to the pure research folks, because that's the first thing Congress cuts when the budget gets thin. Military projects are easier to justify to Congress and are less likely to be cut before they're ready. It's also much much harder to justify spending that money in the first place, as people view pure research as "pork".
If you go into a BestBuy or something, there are two distinct types of CDr media. "Data" CDrs which are US$0.05 each and "Music" CDrs that are US$0.50 each. The Music discs have a few bits burned on them that lets them be used in those standalone CD duplictators, but are otherwise identical. Perhaps this is what they're talking about?
Just because she didn't rip the MP3s to a CD doesn't mean she doesn't own the CD? I know people who download a couple of MP3s, discover they enjoy the band, and buy the album. In this case they would be in posession of MP3s not ripped by themselves and yet in posession of the official CD. I won't even elaborate on the people who have crappy (often OEM) CD-ROMs that have lousy ripping capabilities and have to download their MP3s off of the internet to get decent quality. Worse, some CDs have copy protection cruft on them that forces people to go online to get their MP3s from people who know how to defeat the copy protection, even though they own the CD.
Are you planning to eat these batteries or something? I'd imagine the bacteria would be prevented from spreading by being outside of it's natual habitat, underground.
I've got a scary fact for you. All of the surfaces around you are covered in bacteria. Even that chair, even your bottle of soap, even the water faucets. You cant get away from them. They're everywhere. If you aren't in a full fledged panic yet, you might remember that humans have lived with bactera for as long as their have been humans. The vast majority of them are harmless to humans.
It's also unlikly that a company would release a battery that killed everyone who bought it, and traditional batteries aren't exactly nice to the environment, so the bar is not set very high for these things to be more eco-friendly.
I run the same Java apps on Windows and FreeBSD all the time. Most good apps have no trouble crossing platforms. The only major sticking point is Swing or (especially) AWT, which are implemented with varying degrees of quality across platforms.
Yeah, it's $1600 free!
Especially when you consider how the original VCRs didn't have the long play modes (LP and EP), so each tape was limited to 2 hours. At $10 a tape, it would cost you $1710 to record as much as this PVR. Of course it's not 1980 anymore so this isn't really relevant.
I don't know. That seems like a lot of parity errors to me. I used to run parity memory on my old PII-400 and I saw (I think) 3 SBEs in 5 years. On my new machine I decided to go nonparity because it just didn't seem to be worth the cost. Also, the Nforce chipsets apparently don't support parity memory according to the manual.
Because once you have a free version out there, people will be hesitant to upgrade to the pay version, even if it is a bit better. Look at FreeAgent for example. Once you have the GPL version out there, it's never going to go away, and there is a good chance that once you start charging for the code, someone will take over the free version and start mirroring your new features.
Yeah, these guys should strive for the level of quality found on the comics page of your local paper where the jokes are always fresh and the characters interesting...
If you hadn't noticed, 90% of the comics page is stuck in a rut so big it's been reclassified as a box canyon. It seems that paper editors choose the least offensive most watered down cheap fare they can find for the comics page. This practice has turned the whole thing into a tremendous waste of time, as the same few jokes are told over and over again by the same old tired characters.
so, what are the Lockhearts up to this week? Fighting again? Andy Capp is in a bar or falling down drunk? BC is preaching again? Ooh! The Family Circus has another one of those dotted line things.
In fact, there is a growing community online that uses car engines in airplanes for exactly the reasons you listed. Subaru engines seem to be popular, although people have used engines from Mazda, Ford, and even Chevy.
One opinion on the subject. Another opinion. These guys have a wealth of information about using other engines.
Yes, because we have seen what happens to people when they make the people in power angry. That's why Slashdotters are sensitive to legal issues with whatever they do. They don't want to be locked away for 20 years because some scumbag found a technicality (he swapped the order of his PCI cards! That was forbidden by the EULA! DMCA!).
It is also important to raise people's awareness of EULAs before they become even more rediculous. The consumer already gets the short end of the stick with most EULAs, there's no reason to give even more power to the companies.
Yeah, there's a world of difference between buying a personal jet from a private company that must be flightworthy for dozens or hundreds of flights a year and comply with acres of FAA regulations before they even get off the ground. Not to mention the high markup on those jets.
These rockets are being built with more or less volunteer time and by people who are willing to scrounge for parts and look long and hard for bargains. I think you'd find that the raw materials that go into a Learjet aren't all that expensive (steel by the pound, etc...), but the labor costs, health plans, salespeople comissions, buildings, paperclips, etc... add considerably to the cost of the final product.