Wasn't that the same reasoning that Osama used? I.e. americans have 'democratically' elected their president and they pay taxes to support the military. Therefore, they are legitimate targets since they support that which is being fought against.
Sometimes it's just impossible to move to a different landlord because the landlord owns too much or you don't have enough money to make the move.
Nice analogy, but it doesn't really cover everything;-)
As someone pointed out on http://lwn.net/Articles/45019, the snippet even contains a syntax error, so the code in question cannot even be compiled and certainly cannot be used. I wouldn't call this a very carefully crafted lie but rather a sloppy one, esp. in front of someone who actually has the time to analyze it.
Well, you could also ask the point of high resolutions. If you're playing on your (high res) computer screen, 50-60 fps is pretty good. From 80 and up isn't too useful as it usually exceeds the refresh rate anyway.
Not likely too happen:-) But it's really weird that, for example, some current video cards have more memory on board than in my compus I bought some time (ok, years) ago. Jeez.
Re:The second law of thermodynamics
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The energy of the universe is constant, the entropy of the universe is continuously increasing.
Therefore we cannot post on Slashdot.
Uhm.. why do I suddenly sense the universe folding in on itself??
Re:Is this the right thing to do?
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Heh, why do you bring up Thermodynamics? Are you into creation 'science' or something?;-)
Let us consider two scenario's here:
1) A few of these species survived in some zoo and is used to grow a new and larger population of these species.
2) A couple of these species are regenerated in their original form and used to grow a new and larger population of these species.
Your claim (within these scenarios) is that the plan of life was that it was impossible to keep a few of these animals alive in some zoo or whatever. Using that same line of thinking, it could be argued that having an endangered species list is against the plan of life because if they were meant to survive, they would.
I do agree that all of this does raise some questions and e.g. repopulating these animals will have at least some influence on the environment they are put in. Right thing or not.. the technology is a big step forward. Like most technology, however.. whether it's 'good' or 'bad' depends on the one using it.
Yes, it IS going to cause some waves. But.. could God not want mankind to undo the error of killing these animals into extinction? If a religious person can accept a species dying by the hand of man, then why couldn't this person accept a species (assuming in unaltered form) being brought back to life? I guess it is more convenient to accept destruction through the hand of mankind than conception of life.
I guess it's ok to be religious, as long as it doesn't get in the way of reality. Besides, you can argue everything is the work of God anyway. After all, God's ways are mysterious. It is my opinion that when you can attribute any random set of events to faith or to some divine being, claiming that being to be responsible, yet its actions cannot be measured or verified, then you have just rendered the existence of that being as irrelevant;-)
These developments are of great importance, given the possibilities and dangers and should be considered carefully in all respects, but I don't think religion should have any influence on this.
(Note that I am not against religion per se - my gf is religious;-), but it should just not get in the way of things)
Well, here's another fact: ordinary users are not SUPPOSED to program! They are supposed to pay $$$ to the guys/gals like me that can and do know how to program and how to program well;-) Besides, it costs much more to maintain code which is badly written, badly documented and mostly badly understood by the author.;-)
Btw, there are _loads_ of people that do not qualify as 'wizards and hackers' and still manage to write fairly nice code.
If you really *must* program for some reason, use one of the many BASIC variants out there, but you'll probably start complaining about the complexity of BASIC too, in which case you'll have to be shot;-)
Are you proposing here a method to stop attacks from the outside or attacks that originate against others from the inside? I think you mean the latter.
Limiting to just the addresses in your own range only partially solves the problem if the attacker can still spoof (but then using addresses in your own range). Limiting the addresses per box would seem more appropriate.
Keep in mind, however, that an attacker will usually use a fairly wide range of cracked machines, most of which are with ISPs that have lax security in the first place. It doesn't seem that the problem spots will be the first to get fixed.
It doesn't exactly keep running forever;-) you get a 'runtime limit exceeded' error if it takes too long.. this is usually an indication that your simple linear solution perhaps wasn't the best option.
Another error usable for signalling back data could be runtime error.. like division by zero, etc. I imagine this could be a bit faster:-)
What I do like is that this seems to work for both windows and linux. Why this is a good thing for me? Because I want to write commercial programs that will work both under linux and windows (most of development under linux) -- I already use platform independent (gui) libs for this purpose and having a platform independent installer might be nice too.
On the other hand.. just using this installer for the windows version and using rpms or whatever for the linux one might not be such a bad idea;-) Anybody has any links for other free/open installers, btw.. esp. ones that work under windows (too)?
What I like most about libs such as SDL is that they are *cross platform* -- I can develop my things from the comfort of my linux environment and cross compile to win32 if I need to. I'm afraid that for the time being, developing things for both platforms (i.e. not only linux) is the way to go, even for huge linux fans such as myself:-)
Hhm.. so how many MTOPS could you reach with 500 Alpha's?;-) Suppose you were to order this kind of amount.. would that be disallowed or would you have to buy small quantities at a time?
Logically, I'd think that all information on setting up Beowulf clusters and the like should be restricted too. Hhm.. better not say this too loudly.
I think this is a good move. And besides.. by its very nature, if things do "go wrong" and the situation gets bad enough, I'm sure there will be lots of people willing to put in effort for an alternate slashdot type site, e.g. 'freedot', 'freeslash', etc.. Of course this would mean the 'community' would be widely divided which is a bad thing IMO.
But generally I think 'Slashdot' has been quite an impressive project and will continue to be so in the future.. I wonder what this place will look like in a couple of years:-)
Mwah.. taskbar design is stupid.. what if you want to have like 30-40 open xterms..? Don't make bad design decisions based on previous bad design decisions;-)
Btw, I don't even have a taskbar on my desktop;-) I don't need it.. I have virtual screens and a reasonably organized way of placing things.
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Wasn't that the same reasoning that Osama used? I.e. americans have 'democratically' elected their president and they pay taxes to support the military. Therefore, they are legitimate targets since they support that which is being fought against.
;-)
Sometimes it's just impossible to move to a different landlord because the landlord owns too much or you don't have enough money to make the move.
Nice analogy, but it doesn't really cover everything
As someone pointed out on http://lwn.net/Articles/45019, the snippet even contains a syntax error, so the code in question cannot even be compiled and certainly cannot be used. I wouldn't call this a very carefully crafted lie but rather a sloppy one, esp. in front of someone who actually has the time to analyze it.
Wow.. a zero, who would have guessed ;-)
Well, you could also ask the point of high resolutions. If you're playing on your (high res) computer screen, 50-60 fps is pretty good. From 80 and up isn't too useful as it usually exceeds the refresh rate anyway.
Not likely too happen :-) But it's really weird that, for example, some current video cards have more memory on board than in my compus I bought some time (ok, years) ago. Jeez.
The energy of the universe is constant, the entropy of the universe is continuously increasing.
Therefore we cannot post on Slashdot.
Uhm.. why do I suddenly sense the universe folding in on itself??
Heh, why do you bring up Thermodynamics? Are you into creation 'science' or something? ;-)
Let us consider two scenario's here:
1) A few of these species survived in some zoo and is used to grow a new and larger population of these species.
2) A couple of these species are regenerated in their original form and used to grow a new and larger population of these species.
Your claim (within these scenarios) is that the plan of life was that it was impossible to keep a few of these animals alive in some zoo or whatever. Using that same line of thinking, it could be argued that having an endangered species list is against the plan of life because if they were meant to survive, they would.
I do agree that all of this does raise some questions and e.g. repopulating these animals will have at least some influence on the environment they are put in. Right thing or not.. the technology is a big step forward. Like most technology, however.. whether it's 'good' or 'bad' depends on the one using it.
Tal.
Yes, it IS going to cause some waves. But.. could God not want mankind to undo the error of killing these animals into extinction? If a religious person can accept a species dying by the hand of man, then why couldn't this person accept a species (assuming in unaltered form) being brought back to life? I guess it is more convenient to accept destruction through the hand of mankind than conception of life.
;-)
;-), but it should just not get in the way of things)
I guess it's ok to be religious, as long as it doesn't get in the way of reality. Besides, you can argue everything is the work of God anyway. After all, God's ways are mysterious. It is my opinion that when you can attribute any random set of events to faith or to some divine being, claiming that being to be responsible, yet its actions cannot be measured or verified, then you have just rendered the existence of that being as irrelevant
These developments are of great importance, given the possibilities and dangers and should be considered carefully in all respects, but I don't think religion should have any influence on this.
(Note that I am not against religion per se - my gf is religious
Tal.
Well, here's another fact: ordinary users are not SUPPOSED to program! They are supposed to pay $$$ to the guys/gals like me that can and do know how to program and how to program well ;-) Besides, it costs much more to maintain code which is badly written, badly documented and mostly badly understood by the author. ;-)
;-)
Btw, there are _loads_ of people that do not qualify as 'wizards and hackers' and still manage to write fairly nice code.
If you really *must* program for some reason, use one of the many BASIC variants out there, but you'll probably start complaining about the complexity of BASIC too, in which case you'll have to be shot
Are you proposing here a method to stop attacks from the outside or attacks that originate against others from the inside? I think you mean the latter.
Limiting to just the addresses in your own range only partially solves the problem if the attacker can still spoof (but then using addresses in your own range). Limiting the addresses per box would seem more appropriate.
Keep in mind, however, that an attacker will usually use a fairly wide range of cracked machines, most of which are with ISPs that have lax security in the first place. It doesn't seem that the problem spots will be the first to get fixed.
- Talence
It doesn't exactly keep running forever ;-) you get a 'runtime limit exceeded' error if it takes too long.. this is usually an indication that your simple linear solution perhaps wasn't the best option.
:-)
Another error usable for signalling back data could be runtime error.. like division by zero, etc. I imagine this could be a bit faster
Regards,
Talence
Nice page! I even bookmarked it :-)
Tal.
What I do like is that this seems to work for both windows and linux. Why this is a good thing for me? Because I want to write commercial programs that will work both under linux and windows (most of development under linux) -- I already use platform independent (gui) libs for this purpose and having a platform independent installer might be nice too.
;-) Anybody has any links for other free/open installers, btw.. esp. ones that work under windows (too)?
On the other hand.. just using this installer for the windows version and using rpms or whatever for the linux one might not be such a bad idea
Tal.
What I like most about libs such as SDL is that they are *cross platform* -- I can develop my things from the comfort of my linux environment and cross compile to win32 if I need to. I'm afraid that for the time being, developing things for both platforms (i.e. not only linux) is the way to go, even for huge linux fans such as myself :-)
- Talence
Hhm.. so how many MTOPS could you reach with 500 Alpha's? ;-) Suppose you were to order this kind of amount.. would that be disallowed or would you have to buy small quantities at a time?
Logically, I'd think that all information on
setting up Beowulf clusters and the like should be restricted too. Hhm.. better not say this too loudly.
Tal.
I think this is a good move. And besides.. by its very nature, if things do "go wrong" and the situation gets bad enough, I'm sure there will be lots of people willing to put in effort for an alternate slashdot type site, e.g. 'freedot', 'freeslash', etc.. Of course this would mean the 'community' would be widely divided which is a bad thing IMO.
:-)
But generally I think 'Slashdot' has been quite an impressive project and will continue to be so in the future.. I wonder what this place will look like in a couple of years
- Talence
Mwah.. taskbar design is stupid.. what if you want to have like 30-40 open xterms..? Don't make bad design decisions based on previous bad design decisions ;-)
;-) I don't need it.. I have virtual screens and a reasonably organized way of placing things.
Btw, I don't even have a taskbar on my desktop
Tal.