Hate to call this Orwellian, but it seems so to me.
Winston and Julia had a hard time finding genuine food (except from the proles). I remember them drinking "Victory Coffee". The same applied to cigarettes and chocolate.
This isn't so absurd. While it's not so hard to find a GOOD cup of coffee (yet), most people don't care. They'll drink Tim Hortons (Canadian. Think Dunkin' Donuts) coffee and complain that "Gourmet Coffee" is overpriced. I had the hardest time convincing my mother that bigass cans of Maxwell House don't TASTE the same as fresh-ground Kenya AA (or AAA or Green Mountain blends, etc) -- UNTIL she tried it; now she grinds her own, and doesn't store it in the freezer.
The same is true of chocolate. Think about GOOD chocolate (high-quality). Now, think about any drug-store Easter chocolate. The latter is more like brown WAX with very little taste (and when it "melts" it turns into some sort of foamy paste).
And speaking of foam, the same comparison can be made to generic vs. "natural" ice cream. I regularly pay 2-3 times the price of "cheap" ice cream, for the good stuff. You know, the kind actually MADE from cream, and not milk plus a dozen gums to make it gellied enough to hold shape, then whipped full of air.
GOOD beer (premium, expensive, micro-brewed, FRESH) vs. Budweiser, or Coors, or Molson, or Labatt is another example.
Sorry, now I'm ranting. My point was: LEAVE MY COFFEE ALONE. I like the stuff the way it is. And if you MUST meddle with my favourite bean beverage, I can only hope that it doesn't further affect the price of high-quality coffee.
I sound elitist.. and, I guess, in this case, I am.
1) End-User License Agreements (EULAs) 2) We don't REALLY want this. It's incredibly expensive to have crash-tests / drug-tests done; Open Source software would suffer greatly if it was "controlled" in this way.
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Building on gentoo as we speak...
Post back on Thursday (when it's finished); I want to see how it went.
Sure-enough.. Rayovac (batteries) commercial (at least) 14 times, Mazda 6 commercial at every break, FAKED graphics, including the Canadian Tire, and Pizza Pizza logos rotoscoped onto Qualcomm stadium, and my favourite, coverage of the 5cents/minute long distance blimp flying over the stadium (in the no-fly zone)..
They even kept changing the lighting on the blimp to make it look more real (they did a good job, but it still didn't look QUITE real.. ; would've been believable if not for the no-fly zone).
Its rate of infection is so high that the DoS is caused, which in turn uses all available bandwidth, just like when a biological parasite kills the host; the parasite dies off..
As you put it, the payload doesn't do anything but try to infect other hosts -- no syn floods, no ICMP, nothing except sending packets that could infect other servers. That's why I think the DoS was unintentional.
Hypothetically, say there were two major on-line auction sites. We'll call them auction.example.com and sell.example.com.
auction.example.com might want to attack sell.example.com's servers -- more business and credibility for auction.example.com (unless they get caught)
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If, hypothetically, I run a brick-and-mortar specialty store (I sell cheese). I notice business dwindling off. I survey some of my customers and find out they're buying their Gouda from cheese.example.com. Attack the site, or the whole 'net: get customers back.
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However, I suspect this new worm's ("Bill's Tapeworm" as I heard another slashdotter call it) DDoS payload was a side-effect and likely accidental. The worm is trying to reproduce, and the DDoS seems like an unintended payload (after all, if the work can't get to another target because of network congestion, it can't infect it (UDP packets DO get dropped in such situations)).
Microsoft has changed the code name of its highly controversial 'trusted' computing platform from 'Palladium' to 'next-generation secure computing base.'
Someone mis-filed this under "Microsoft".. is the "It's Funny.. Laugh.." category broken?
As an ISP, why not respect a TTL? Because many DNS zones set their TTL values too small (5 mins), when 24 hours, would accomplish the same thing (except in rare circumstances -- if you're planning on moving, set it low a week before, do the move, reset to high ttl).
As a DNS administrator, it's a pain to keep changing your TTL and the ISPs don't respect it anyway.
It's useless to have a low TTL because the ISPs generally don't respect it because it's generally set too low because the ISPs don't generally respect it because....
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I actually just finished reading said book.
Other than the cheezy 80's images, it's a good read.
Relax. Enjoy a homebrew.
(which is also why I'm skeptical.. if it brews in your fridge, you'd ALWAYS get lager.. boring.. (cold-fermenting ale?)
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http://www.beermachine.com/
I'm skeptical, though...
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You mean like slashdot formkeys?
Yeah, me too (see sig).
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If you make it with 120lbs of vintage dumbass, it turns out much better.
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I suggest we don't cap interview question moderation.
5 is too low in this case.
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Hate to call this Orwellian, but it seems so to me.
Winston and Julia had a hard time finding genuine food (except from the proles). I remember them drinking "Victory Coffee". The same applied to cigarettes and chocolate.
This isn't so absurd. While it's not so hard to find a GOOD cup of coffee (yet), most people don't care. They'll drink Tim Hortons (Canadian. Think Dunkin' Donuts) coffee and complain that "Gourmet Coffee" is overpriced. I had the hardest time convincing my mother that bigass cans of Maxwell House don't TASTE the same as fresh-ground Kenya AA (or AAA or Green Mountain blends, etc) -- UNTIL she tried it; now she grinds her own, and doesn't store it in the freezer.
The same is true of chocolate. Think about GOOD chocolate (high-quality). Now, think about any drug-store Easter chocolate. The latter is more like brown WAX with very little taste (and when it "melts" it turns into some sort of foamy paste).
And speaking of foam, the same comparison can be made to generic vs. "natural" ice cream. I regularly pay 2-3 times the price of "cheap" ice cream, for the good stuff. You know, the kind actually MADE from cream, and not milk plus a dozen gums to make it gellied enough to hold shape, then whipped full of air.
GOOD beer (premium, expensive, micro-brewed, FRESH) vs. Budweiser, or Coors, or Molson, or Labatt is another example.
Sorry, now I'm ranting. My point was: LEAVE MY COFFEE ALONE. I like the stuff the way it is. And if you MUST meddle with my favourite bean beverage, I can only hope that it doesn't further affect the price of high-quality coffee.
I sound elitist.. and, I guess, in this case, I am.
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I doubt this is true.
There are all kinds of rumors surrounding McDonalds' food.
See here for a related example.
Also, the FDA won't let them put undisclosed ingredients into their food.
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I have used GnomeMeeting and the quality was just excellent, much better than a conventional phone.
Riiight..
How could this be? Was the party on the other end using a hi-fi phone, over a special network?
I don't see how it could POSSIBLY be higher, if the limit is on the remote side.
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My setup: P3-700, 64MBRam (yeah, low RAM).
KDE 3.0 took 26+ hours.
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1) End-User License Agreements (EULAs)
2) We don't REALLY want this. It's incredibly expensive to have crash-tests / drug-tests done; Open Source software would suffer greatly if it was "controlled" in this way.
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Building on gentoo as we speak...
Post back on Thursday (when it's finished); I want to see how it went.
</sarcasm>
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PHP.net's comments are moderated and proofed. Many developers have access to this; I do.
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It's just CAT5. There was an article here on /. a year, or-so, ago, about it.
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(self-reply)
Sure-enough.. Rayovac (batteries) commercial (at least) 14 times, Mazda 6 commercial at every break, FAKED graphics, including the Canadian Tire, and Pizza Pizza logos rotoscoped onto Qualcomm stadium, and my favourite, coverage of the 5cents/minute long distance blimp flying over the stadium (in the no-fly zone)..
They even kept changing the lighting on the blimp to make it look more real (they did a good job, but it still didn't look QUITE real.. ; would've been believable if not for the no-fly zone).
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I won't get to see the $2mil commercials. I'll see local commercials for "Guy's Used Cars"
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To be truly accurate, both the 486 SX and DX models contained the co-processor, but it was disabled in the SX for marketing reasons.
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No. It's a parasite.
Its rate of infection is so high that the DoS is caused, which in turn uses all available bandwidth, just like when a biological parasite kills the host; the parasite dies off..
As you put it, the payload doesn't do anything but try to infect other hosts -- no syn floods, no ICMP, nothing except sending packets that could infect other servers. That's why I think the DoS was unintentional.
S
Hypothetically, say there were two major on-line auction sites. We'll call them auction.example.com and sell.example.com.
auction.example.com might want to attack sell.example.com's servers -- more business and credibility for auction.example.com (unless they get caught)
----
If, hypothetically, I run a brick-and-mortar specialty store (I sell cheese). I notice business dwindling off. I survey some of my customers and find out they're buying their Gouda from cheese.example.com. Attack the site, or the whole 'net: get customers back.
----
However, I suspect this new worm's ("Bill's Tapeworm" as I heard another slashdotter call it) DDoS payload was a side-effect and likely accidental. The worm is trying to reproduce, and the DDoS seems like an unintended payload (after all, if the work can't get to another target because of network congestion, it can't infect it (UDP packets DO get dropped in such situations)).
S
Microsoft has changed the code name of its highly controversial 'trusted' computing platform from 'Palladium' to 'next-generation secure computing base.'
Someone mis-filed this under "Microsoft".. is the "It's Funny.. Laugh.." category broken?
S
A VERY VERY long time. I still get code red hits on my web servers, quite regularly.. and THAT was 2 years ago.
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How do we get back??
I know..
HACK THE GIBSON
erm..
nevermind..
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This is probably a cyclic argument.
As an ISP, why not respect a TTL? Because many DNS zones set their TTL values too small (5 mins), when 24 hours, would accomplish the same thing (except in rare circumstances -- if you're planning on moving, set it low a week before, do the move, reset to high ttl).
As a DNS administrator, it's a pain to keep changing your TTL and the ISPs don't respect it anyway.
It's useless to have a low TTL because the ISPs generally don't respect it because it's generally set too low because the ISPs don't generally respect it because....
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AOL is not alone in this. I've seen many (largish) ISPs ignore DNS TTLs. Makes switching IPs a disaster.
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Fonts are harder to "get" than anyone who doesn't truly understand fonts would know.
FYI:
apt-get install msttcorefonts
does wonders for a stock debian install..
yeah.. dark side, but their fonts are nice (except Comic Sans.. I HATE that font).
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on PyQT:
http://www.opendocspublishing.com/pyqt/
Python: cross platform
QT: cross platform, native-working widgets.
QT, however, isn't free for commercial use.
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