It was a job, they paid him to do it so in a sense he didn't even invent it. He was given a task, and he completed it. Of course it would be nice to mention him in some way but thats the reality we live in.
Actually ARPA gave us the IP stack, and that was only sortof since the guys at Xerox PARC steered everyone in the right direction in the first place. Also from what I've read, once the "D" got added, funding was much more directed at the "Defense" region of research
I believe thats the point being made. At the moment with current technology we CAN'T solve the problem. Which means either we close our eyes and just make the same mistakes and not learn anything, or we try to delay solving the problem until we can solve it properly.
From the things I have read that quoted the actors directly everyone of them would happily drop whatever they were doing to make more Firefly. The all consider it the most fun they have had acting ever.
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Not sure why you think Xeon's have better I/O than Opterons but I would spend some serious time looking into the on-chip memory controllers on Opterons and also do the maths to establish the maximum amount of data a Xeon based systems front side bus can move
What I would think he means is that they are still connected using GbE. Blades give the perfect oppurtunity to use a higher speed interconnect since you already have backplanes that the blades connect to.
As has been said before. If the server allows the client to corrupt data then it is the server that is broken, not the client.
But yes the originla question of whose server was he using and what client data was he sniffing is a good one. Bearing in mind he was supposedly doing this out of work time that would lead one to assume he either lives with someone that was using the BK client and was sniffing their traffic, or he was sniffing the OSDL network, which would mean he was working on it during "work time".
If we take him at his word then we must assume he lives with someone that has a BK license of some kind. The question that then needs to be answered is what does the license contain about knowingly allowing your network to be sniffed?
Of course this still doesn't resolve how he is testing his client, but I don't think it could be illegal to connect to a public server on the internet (although given the american legal system and the way lawyers will twist word, who knows).
I believe the primary point of the parent (grandparent?) was that would _SOULDN'T_ be able to introduce corruption into the DB by connecting to it and sending it garbage. All exchanges should have sanity checks of some sort.
If you couldn't corrupt the DB then the worst thing you could do is apply a change that corrupted your source code, now given the DB is still in a consistant state you can then simply reverse that change and all is well again.
Decent server hardware will tell you via it's management software. Usually long before it causes the system to crash. Also if you have chipkill memory installed it will also turn off the faulty chip on the memory so you can continue to run until you can organise a replacement piece and schedule some downtime
How very wrong you are. Intels chipsets have CSA. That is the only chipset that has a "dedicated" port for ethernet. All the other things you mention are still connected to the PCI bus
This is a very good point (several in fact). The final paragraph fails to take into account that even 1GbE doesn't leave the processor idle. At 10GbE the processor will be run at close to 100% just handling the network load. This is one of the reasons 10GbE is so expensive today because a lot of hardware offloading is required
Are you serious? But CRT instead of LCD? In a business environment? Have you ever looked at the power consumption differneces?
An LCD at todays price will pay off the difference in savings you may have got buying a CRT in less than a year
Whilst you're right on the money, the funniest aspect of this is that the x86 architecture is horrible and it thats what IBM etc (I know it's not what they camne up with but x86 is a market standard too rather than a government one) came up with maybe the government should have had ago at it:-)
Folders are easy, just have it tag SPAM rather than block it and have users setup a filter to move everything to this folder. The problem will be getting a linux box to reject mail that isn't addressed to a valid user (unless you have another box in front of your exchange server already that is doing this
Swap on an HPC is less nessecary because if your nodes EVER have to swap then you might as well stop what you're doing and go and buy more memory. If you can't fit your problem in memory you might as well not even start
I don't know either but nature does almost everything better than we can at this point, why wouldn't a living organism be a better converter than we can build?
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Except the torture hasn't stopped, it's just that now it's the US and they are doing it with napalm like substances
It was a job, they paid him to do it so in a sense he didn't even invent it. He was given a task, and he completed it. Of course it would be nice to mention him in some way but thats the reality we live in.
Actually ARPA gave us the IP stack, and that was only sortof since the guys at Xerox PARC steered everyone in the right direction in the first place. Also from what I've read, once the "D" got added, funding was much more directed at the "Defense" region of research
I believe thats the point being made. At the moment with current technology we CAN'T solve the problem. Which means either we close our eyes and just make the same mistakes and not learn anything, or we try to delay solving the problem until we can solve it properly.
The space shuttles are technically advanced?
Now that is a scary thought
From the things I have read that quoted the actors directly everyone of them would happily drop whatever they were doing to make more Firefly. The all consider it the most fun they have had acting ever.
Not sure why you think Xeon's have better I/O than Opterons but I would spend some serious time looking into the on-chip memory controllers on Opterons and also do the maths to establish the maximum amount of data a Xeon based systems front side bus can move
What I would think he means is that they are still connected using GbE. Blades give the perfect oppurtunity to use a higher speed interconnect since you already have backplanes that the blades connect to.
The story I heard was Fox had exclusive access to TV rights for 10 years, so that would leave about 8 years.
Whilst this is good advice, be prepared for a TON of email on that list... it's a VERY busy list
As has been said before. If the server allows the client to corrupt data then it is the server that is broken, not the client.
But yes the originla question of whose server was he using and what client data was he sniffing is a good one. Bearing in mind he was supposedly doing this out of work time that would lead one to assume he either lives with someone that was using the BK client and was sniffing their traffic, or he was sniffing the OSDL network, which would mean he was working on it during "work time".
If we take him at his word then we must assume he lives with someone that has a BK license of some kind. The question that then needs to be answered is what does the license contain about knowingly allowing your network to be sniffed?
Of course this still doesn't resolve how he is testing his client, but I don't think it could be illegal to connect to a public server on the internet (although given the american legal system and the way lawyers will twist word, who knows).
Hahahah... technical merit.... thats funny
See BETA vs VHS and Windows vs OS/2 to see how much technical merit in todays world
I believe the primary point of the parent (grandparent?) was that would _SOULDN'T_ be able to introduce corruption into the DB by connecting to it and sending it garbage. All exchanges should have sanity checks of some sort.
If you couldn't corrupt the DB then the worst thing you could do is apply a change that corrupted your source code, now given the DB is still in a consistant state you can then simply reverse that change and all is well again.
Decent server hardware will tell you via it's management software. Usually long before it causes the system to crash. Also if you have chipkill memory installed it will also turn off the faulty chip on the memory so you can continue to run until you can organise a replacement piece and schedule some downtime
How very wrong you are. Intels chipsets have CSA. That is the only chipset that has a "dedicated" port for ethernet. All the other things you mention are still connected to the PCI bus
This is a very good point (several in fact). The final paragraph fails to take into account that even 1GbE doesn't leave the processor idle. At 10GbE the processor will be run at close to 100% just handling the network load. This is one of the reasons 10GbE is so expensive today because a lot of hardware offloading is required
Are you serious? But CRT instead of LCD? In a business environment? Have you ever looked at the power consumption differneces? An LCD at todays price will pay off the difference in savings you may have got buying a CRT in less than a year
And where does it say they have bandwidth issues? I'd be willing to bet blizzard has more bandwidth at their disposal then many countries
Whilst you're right on the money, the funniest aspect of this is that the x86 architecture is horrible and it thats what IBM etc (I know it's not what they camne up with but x86 is a market standard too rather than a government one) came up with maybe the government should have had ago at it :-)
Uh.. Isn't Las Vegas smack in the middle of a desert?
Folders are easy, just have it tag SPAM rather than block it and have users setup a filter to move everything to this folder. The problem will be getting a linux box to reject mail that isn't addressed to a valid user (unless you have another box in front of your exchange server already that is doing this
If you want to fight terror why invade Iraq? Why not focus all your resources on catching Osama?
Swap on an HPC is less nessecary because if your nodes EVER have to swap then you might as well stop what you're doing and go and buy more memory. If you can't fit your problem in memory you might as well not even start
Actually IB is VERY closely related to PCI Express. At one point they were the same thing and that was called 3GIO by Intel
Why do you say that?
I don't know either but nature does almost everything better than we can at this point, why wouldn't a living organism be a better converter than we can build?