Do you even know what the blaster worm does? The only thing it does is create a DOS against windowsupdate.com.
It also spreads, saturating network connections. If you think the bandwidth used by blaster was free you might want to reconsider and think of the actual damages caused by this bug. But that wasn't even the important part of the havoc Blaster played: the perpetual reboot cycle on machines where it crashed RPC was much more troublesome.
You simply just have trouble understaning the situation, and putting yourself in his shoes. No one's giving him a "free pass", and he didn't "damage [your] property". 18 months in prison is more than enough punishment for such a prank.
I don't think you understand the situation, actually. A company I used to work for lost a quarter of a million dollars over this 'prank'. The shit hit the fan overnight at the company and the IT department elected to emergency-push the patch onto all systems in the domain. As per SOP lab managers and their assistants were sent the emergency page two hours before the push went out. The company's upstream bandwidth was saturated with blaster traffic so the email got stuck at the server and was not delivered to the pagers. So a lab manager didn't know to come in and physically isolate his (already patched) lab. Thus the servers were rebooted by the force-deploy scripts. A 500 hour stress test was interrupted in progress, causing a certification deadline to be missed and penalty clauses in the contract were invoked.
Blaster took out 911 service in some areas, distrupted air-traffic-control,...... Virus and worm writers deserve a lot more than an 18month slap on the wrist.
Damn right. If I'd been infected by his worm it would cost me time cleaning my system, verifying the integrity of my data, and so on. Time I could have spent making money or enjoying myself. Giving a free pass to someone who willfully takes action to damage my property does not sit well with me.
As to his newfound $200,000 in debt he should have fucking thought about that before he let a worm out into the wild, hey? I don't want to send the message to the next script kiddie that this short of sit is acceptable.
And 18 months? That's a fucking joke. He deserves a lot more.
MS didn't fine the kid, the court ordered him to pay 500k in restition. MS offered to let the kid sweat it off instead of paying cash. This is just a typical shitty slashdot writeup.
As far as I know, there is nothing illegal about scuba diving without such a certification (I could very well be wrong though).
In my state I'm pretty sure that although it is legal to dive without a cert, no dive shop will fill your tanks -- too much liability risk?
But really there's no reason not to get a scuba certification if you want to dive. They're cheap, not time consuming, and offer incredible value for the money. Note: the PADI Open Water Diver certification is, in the words of my instructor, a "learner's permit". My instructor made me promise to get the AOWD at an absolute minimum if I want to continue diving.
It's a lot of fun. My dive certification was definately the coolest class I've ever taken. Even if you don't count the practical which, by the way, was fucking awesome.:) I'm starting up my AOWD cert really soon, after which I'll take my Rescue Diver and then probably stop. I've got no practical need for a pro cert like Divemaster and I am very unlikely to dive anywhere I'll need the MSD cert.
And to anyone who thinks they can skip out on training: how deep can you go? how long can you safely stay down there? does your insurance cover decompression sickness? do you know that Divers Down only carries certified divers?
I caught it further down in the thread and actually asked you for some explanation of why you think that. My experiences have been nothing but positive.
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netbooting is a horrible, horrible idea
My god, you're kidding, right? The last lab I maintained was a testlab for small clusters -- we had three classes of Dell servers, two classes of HP servers, and five classes of desktops. Total we had just short of 1200 systems. Every re-imaging task started with a netboot.. We could provision a system straight out of the box all the way to a full server and in the pool for allocation to the next test request just by plugging it in.
It's a guy in a "bunny suit" (the 'labcoat' dancers from the intel commercials of the late 90s) with a bottle of white-out. I remembered this one for some reason and a quick search on their site brought it up. here
I would guess that if someone took a poll of slashdot readers and the general population they would find a statistically significant correlation between reading slashdot and participation in such "thrill-seeker" activities such as rock-climbing and skydiving.
IAC said that it intends to buy back at least 60 percent of the shares it plans to issue for acquisition through previously authorized share repurchase programs.
So it'll work out to being a bit less than a 60% cash deal on a 1.85gigabuck purchase.
But you're missing the important part. You aren't required to give your GPLd code to anyone who asks. You only need to give your GPLd code to people you've given binaries.
Thus, if you don't distribute bins, you can keep your changes to yourself and remain in full compliance with the license. Spudley was right on that point.
tape goo on glass or glossy surfaces isn't fun to clean up
Visit your local Home Despot or whatever, grab a small bottle of Goo Gone. It's pretty much apply, wait a few moments, and then wipe away and the problem's gone.
...With processes you don't have to do this as they have their own copy of the data at fork.
It's not quite as grim as that. In most cases the same pages will be used after fork() until one of the processes decides to write to the page in which case it gets a copy of the original page to work with from then on (Copy On Write).
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Why bother when you can play Angband?
A cunning riposte. I don't know what to say.
Do you even know what the blaster worm does? The only thing it does is create a DOS against windowsupdate.com.
It also spreads, saturating network connections. If you think the bandwidth used by blaster was free you might want to reconsider and think of the actual damages caused by this bug. But that wasn't even the important part of the havoc Blaster played: the perpetual reboot cycle on machines where it crashed RPC was much more troublesome.
You simply just have trouble understaning the situation, and putting yourself in his shoes. No one's giving him a "free pass", and he didn't "damage [your] property". 18 months in prison is more than enough punishment for such a prank.
I don't think you understand the situation, actually. A company I used to work for lost a quarter of a million dollars over this 'prank'. The shit hit the fan overnight at the company and the IT department elected to emergency-push the patch onto all systems in the domain. As per SOP lab managers and their assistants were sent the emergency page two hours before the push went out. The company's upstream bandwidth was saturated with blaster traffic so the email got stuck at the server and was not delivered to the pagers. So a lab manager didn't know to come in and physically isolate his (already patched) lab. Thus the servers were rebooted by the force-deploy scripts. A 500 hour stress test was interrupted in progress, causing a certification deadline to be missed and penalty clauses in the contract were invoked.
Blaster took out 911 service in some areas, distrupted air-traffic-control, ... ... Virus and worm writers deserve a lot more than an 18month slap on the wrist.
As to his newfound $200,000 in debt he should have fucking thought about that before he let a worm out into the wild, hey? I don't want to send the message to the next script kiddie that this short of sit is acceptable.
And 18 months? That's a fucking joke. He deserves a lot more.
If I had been infected I'd take him to small claims for $25 and $25 in filing fees.
MS didn't fine the kid, the court ordered him to pay 500k in restition. MS offered to let the kid sweat it off instead of paying cash. This is just a typical shitty slashdot writeup.
If you had a box that caught blaster there is nothing preventing you from taking this kid to civil court for damages.
I think I'd rather drink a pint of my own diarrhea.
In my state I'm pretty sure that although it is legal to dive without a cert, no dive shop will fill your tanks -- too much liability risk?
But really there's no reason not to get a scuba certification if you want to dive. They're cheap, not time consuming, and offer incredible value for the money. Note: the PADI Open Water Diver certification is, in the words of my instructor, a "learner's permit". My instructor made me promise to get the AOWD at an absolute minimum if I want to continue diving.
It's a lot of fun. My dive certification was definately the coolest class I've ever taken. Even if you don't count the practical which, by the way, was fucking awesome. :) I'm starting up my AOWD cert really soon, after which I'll take my Rescue Diver and then probably stop. I've got no practical need for a pro cert like Divemaster and I am very unlikely to dive anywhere I'll need the MSD cert.
And to anyone who thinks they can skip out on training: how deep can you go? how long can you safely stay down there? does your insurance cover decompression sickness? do you know that Divers Down only carries certified divers?
Planecrashers aren't saboteurs, as sabotage is inherently an inside job.
No objection on any of the rest though.
I hear he needs to fight for that.
I caught it further down in the thread and actually asked you for some explanation of why you think that. My experiences have been nothing but positive.
My god, you're kidding, right? The last lab I maintained was a testlab for small clusters -- we had three classes of Dell servers, two classes of HP servers, and five classes of desktops. Total we had just short of 1200 systems. Every re-imaging task started with a netboot.. We could provision a system straight out of the box all the way to a full server and in the pool for allocation to the next test request just by plugging it in.
What's the problem with netbooting??
Agreed, but for the record: boot from the NIC and you get much much much of the thin client manageability back. :)
It's a guy in a "bunny suit" (the 'labcoat' dancers from the intel commercials of the late 90s) with a bottle of white-out. I remembered this one for some reason and a quick search on their site brought it up. here
I would guess that if someone took a poll of slashdot readers and the general population they would find a statistically significant correlation between reading slashdot and participation in such "thrill-seeker" activities such as rock-climbing and skydiving.
Do you mind pointing at the actual benchmarks in question so people in the know can examine the methodology?
So it'll work out to being a bit less than a 60% cash deal on a 1.85gigabuck purchase.
Still a lot of real money.
Try Angband instead. It's betterest than Nethack. I've got the new(ish) graphics card and still plat Angband most. :)
Thanks man. I wondered what the fuss was. Now I know. It's beautiful.
The canonical version: "Jesus saves, everyone else in a 10ft radius takes full damage from the fireball."
The story reads even better in cockney
But given how badly slashcode html fails to validate it's not too surprising that firefox has trouble with it.
Thus, if you don't distribute bins, you can keep your changes to yourself and remain in full compliance with the license. Spudley was right on that point.
Visit your local Home Despot or whatever, grab a small bottle of Goo Gone. It's pretty much apply, wait a few moments, and then wipe away and the problem's gone.
It's not quite as grim as that. In most cases the same pages will be used after fork() until one of the processes decides to write to the page in which case it gets a copy of the original page to work with from then on (Copy On Write).