Actually, he's spending BILLIONS of dollars, not millions.
As for the concerns of the politicans, they're completely absurd.
Porn has always been the only consistently profitiable enterprise on the internet. Those concerned that the.xxx domain is going to create a varitable red light district miss the fact the whole internet is a practically a red light district...
Yeah, that's all we need, people capable of cutting each other off in 3 demensions instead of two...
For that matter we should have had a HAL9000 at this point. The world's got enough trouble without evil lip reading computers ejecting people out of airlocks...
Now they just have to also include an trunking protocol so I can take all 10 of my neighbors totally open AP's and aggregate them into one monster connection.
Granted it'll exceed all bandwidth available on the PCI bus, but damn, they'll be alot of data queued up on the card!
I have the distinct feeling that these pieces of cloth have been dangling for years and it hasn't caused an issue yet.
It wasn't until they took a magnifying glass to the underside of the shuttle that the noticed them.
Gladfully, maybe this will be the straw that breaks the camels back and pushes NASA into gear... That is putting all of it's resources towards building a good stable quasi reusable spacecraft that doesn't have the limitations of the shuttle.
I agree with that quote from Bernstein as well. If IPv6 was made complimentary to IPv4 so that you could have both on the same network and able to talk to one another without tunnels and crap, I think when people migrated their networks to gigE, they would have also migrated their devices to IPv6 as well.
I agree. NAT effectively killed IPv6. That and the baulkanization of the internet.
Everybody has their own citadel with their data servers up in pearly white towers. The only clear access to the information desk is across a gantry high above a wall of fire. As you walk across this gantry your every step is watched by a 50 eyed beholder...
Which is probably one of the reasons he was caught...
He's not the first criminal whose greed killed the goose that laid the golden egg...
I'd be interested in what technology he used to pull this off. Let's just say he works 24 days a month (6 day work weeks, 8 hours a day) = 11520 minutes. 200,000 / 11520 = 17.4 accounts per minute he was stealing.
More liking I'm suspecting he installed some sorta screen scraping software or something and let it run even when he wasn't there.
A more likely senario is that since the Russian navy has been severly underfunded for the last dozen years or so, regular maintenance that should have been performed on this booster wasn't.
The God(s)/God created PI. An infinite number of non repeating digits that describe the ratio of circle to an ever more perfect degree.
Thus it could be argued that god(s)/God are really into doing things right up front.
Hence the whole Adam and Eve creation myth is bunk because it's too much of a kludge for a god who's into elegant solutions.
The big bang was an elegant solution. It was elegant because of the beauty of its simplicity.
Evolution is an elegant solution. Going and creating all kinds of specialed creatures isn't how a God who thought up PI would do things. An elegant God who can think up an infinite number just has to have the one elegant thought and the rest just works itself out.
Same here... With WAAS on even in a city such as Boston my Garmin's accuracy is usually between 3 and 12 meters.
What would be a cooler use for the wifi technology would be to have each of these access points have a small index on it in different categories. Thus you could have a category's such as "Coffee", "Food", "Sex workers", "Drugs" etc.
Then if you choose "Coffee" it would say something like: "44th and 3rd: Starbucks: BAD!!! Keep Going!"
To combat the problem of jokers just putting wrong crap out on their AP's is to have an index on a server somewhere that would assign a reliability rating per category per AP.
I'm not too keen on one organization that would "own" all of this data per say. I'd rather it be a freeform type information service. Hence why I threw in the "questonable" categories...
The main reason for this is that nobody in power has been afflicted by this.
The moment one of these BotNet's decides to DDOS the servers at the capitol building or start attacking other aspects of the US internet infrastructure, your congressman isn't going to give a shit.
The internet and the laws governing it are the wildwest at the moment. Some corners have very strong laws, other corners have none. However, if I remember it was the vigilantes who took care of the areas that strong law hadn't come into play.
Vigilante groups are a double edged sword. Laws generally aren't as agile as a group of people working for the common good. However, there is a danger that any group of people once given power is generally adverse to giving it up. Also the argument about what "common good" is gets nebulous. We all agree that child porn sites should be taken down and their proprieters chucked into wood chipppers. What happends when you get a vigilante group that feels that all porn sites are bad?
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I'm not sure who wrote the program, maybe JWZ, but there used to be a program that would force you to take a 30 second break every 10 minutes. I think it was called "Wrist Saver" or something like that.
Considering some of the shit that companies have churned out to run on their specialized hardware... I think "Anals of history" sums it up pretty well...
Yeah actually, I've heard talk that there were some decenting voices over the whole Iraq thing in the CIA. Those people were forced out of their positions and replaced with people who shall we say, have similar world views to those in the White House.
Having been witness to a million dollar fiasco with Siebel I think Siebel's licensing revenue is down because they make a shitty product.
In a nutshell, they came in and promised the world and ended up delivering something like the nastiest part of New Jersey.
Ironically, our inside developers created a Cold Fusion app and were able to solve all the problems Siebel wasn't.
So, I don't think licensed enterprise software is dead. Only poor quality half assed licensed enterprise software. Granted, I've had my bitches about Cold Fusion but at least the system as concieved actually works...
IPV6 has alot of nice features, but it's main reason for existing (expanded address space) is turning out to be mute.
The simple reason is that when people were working out the ideas for IPV6, the internet was basically a flat network where everybody had their corner and everybody had a class B, etc. Their fear was we'd run out of addresses. Well, we did and people simple solved the problem with cleverness instead of just expanding the address space.
The fact is now, entire corporations can run on a couple of class C address and leverage the power of NAT and proxies.
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Actually, he's spending BILLIONS of dollars, not millions.
.xxx domain is going to create a varitable red light district miss the fact the whole internet is a practically a red light district...
As for the concerns of the politicans, they're completely absurd.
Porn has always been the only consistently profitiable enterprise on the internet. Those concerned that the
Is Blizzard planning to release an expansion pack? If so, is there any time frame for this and would it include a bumping up of the level cap?
Yeah, that's all we need, people capable of cutting each other off in 3 demensions instead of two...
For that matter we should have had a HAL9000 at this point. The world's got enough trouble without evil lip reading computers ejecting people out of airlocks...
Now they just have to also include an trunking protocol so I can take all 10 of my neighbors totally open AP's and aggregate them into one monster connection.
Granted it'll exceed all bandwidth available on the PCI bus, but damn, they'll be alot of data queued up on the card!
Ya know,
I have the distinct feeling that these pieces of cloth have been dangling for years and it hasn't caused an issue yet.
It wasn't until they took a magnifying glass to the underside of the shuttle that the noticed them.
Gladfully, maybe this will be the straw that breaks the camels back and pushes NASA into gear... That is putting all of it's resources towards building a good stable quasi reusable spacecraft that doesn't have the limitations of the shuttle.
Here's the question, do they need to be subtle? This isn't the same as bullying OEM's to use Intel chips or they'd lose they're nice juicy discounts.
This is designing your product so that when it runs on your compeditors product it goes into sabatoge mode.
Now, while I think this behavior is morally dubious, I'm not entirely sure it constitues being illegal.
A buddy of mine submitted a flight plan to land at Logon and it was actually accepted.
He lands perfectly on the numbers.... and then had to taxi a mile to the first turn off...
At least in Massachusetts, other than Logon and Springfield, Hanscom AFB has a huge runway.
And after this poll you could have this poll:
Slashdot editor most responsible for dupes:
(a) Zonk
(b) write-in canidate
(c) CowboyNeal
(d) Commander Taco
I agree with that quote from Bernstein as well. If IPv6 was made complimentary to IPv4 so that you could have both on the same network and able to talk to one another without tunnels and crap, I think when people migrated their networks to gigE, they would have also migrated their devices to IPv6 as well.
I agree. NAT effectively killed IPv6. That and the baulkanization of the internet.
Everybody has their own citadel with their data servers up in pearly white towers. The only clear access to the information desk is across a gantry high above a wall of fire. As you walk across this gantry your every step is watched by a 50 eyed beholder...
Am I the only person here who saw the part "11 Nation raid" and thought "What the hell is RAID 11?" (mirroring with mirroring?)
It's merely steep us mere mortals...
Microsoft probably spent more than that on snacks and soda for it's developers last year!
Oh... the new Fedora Core just came out... How many goats do I need to send to my DSL provider so I'll have the bandwidth?
On a positive note, if your in the lunch line and the lady won't take your chicken as form of payment, at least you can eat your currency!
Which is probably one of the reasons he was caught...
He's not the first criminal whose greed killed the goose that laid the golden egg...
I'd be interested in what technology he used to pull this off. Let's just say he works 24 days a month (6 day work weeks, 8 hours a day) = 11520 minutes.
200,000 / 11520 = 17.4 accounts per minute he was stealing.
More liking I'm suspecting he installed some sorta screen scraping software or something and let it run even when he wasn't there.
A more likely senario is that since the Russian navy has been severly underfunded for the last dozen years or so, regular maintenance that should have been performed on this booster wasn't.
Here's my take on things.
The God(s)/God created PI. An infinite number of non repeating digits that describe the ratio of circle to an ever more perfect degree.
Thus it could be argued that god(s)/God are really into doing things right up front.
Hence the whole Adam and Eve creation myth is bunk because it's too much of a kludge for a god who's into elegant solutions.
The big bang was an elegant solution. It was elegant because of the beauty of its simplicity.
Evolution is an elegant solution. Going and creating all kinds of specialed creatures isn't how a God who thought up PI would do things. An elegant God who can think up an infinite number just has to have the one elegant thought and the rest just works itself out.
Same here... With WAAS on even in a city such as Boston my Garmin's accuracy is usually between 3 and 12 meters.
What would be a cooler use for the wifi technology would be to have each of these access points have a small index on it in different categories. Thus you could have a category's such as "Coffee", "Food", "Sex workers", "Drugs" etc.
Then if you choose "Coffee" it would say something like: "44th and 3rd: Starbucks: BAD!!! Keep Going!"
To combat the problem of jokers just putting wrong crap out on their AP's is to have an index on a server somewhere that would assign a reliability rating per category per AP.
I'm not too keen on one organization that would "own" all of this data per say. I'd rather it be a freeform type information service. Hence why I threw in the "questonable" categories...
The main reason for this is that nobody in power has been afflicted by this.
The moment one of these BotNet's decides to DDOS the servers at the capitol building or start attacking other aspects of the US internet infrastructure, your congressman isn't going to give a shit.
The internet and the laws governing it are the wildwest at the moment. Some corners have very strong laws, other corners have none. However, if I remember it was the vigilantes who took care of the areas that strong law hadn't come into play.
Vigilante groups are a double edged sword. Laws generally aren't as agile as a group of people working for the common good. However, there is a danger that any group of people once given power is generally adverse to giving it up. Also the argument about what "common good" is gets nebulous. We all agree that child porn sites should be taken down and their proprieters chucked into wood chipppers. What happends when you get a vigilante group that feels that all porn sites are bad?
I'm not sure who wrote the program, maybe JWZ, but there used to be a program that would force you to take a 30 second break every 10 minutes. I think it was called "Wrist Saver" or something like that.
Considering some of the shit that companies have churned out to run on their specialized hardware... I think "Anals of history" sums it up pretty well...
Yeah actually, I've heard talk that there were some decenting voices over the whole Iraq thing in the CIA. Those people were forced out of their positions and replaced with people who shall we say, have similar world views to those in the White House.
Having been witness to a million dollar fiasco with Siebel I think Siebel's licensing revenue is down because they make a shitty product.
In a nutshell, they came in and promised the world and ended up delivering something like the nastiest part of New Jersey.
Ironically, our inside developers created a Cold Fusion app and were able to solve all the problems Siebel wasn't.
So, I don't think licensed enterprise software is dead. Only poor quality half assed licensed enterprise software. Granted, I've had my bitches about Cold Fusion but at least the system as concieved actually works...
IPV6 has alot of nice features, but it's main reason for existing (expanded address space) is turning out to be mute.
The simple reason is that when people were working out the ideas for IPV6, the internet was basically a flat network where everybody had their corner and everybody had a class B, etc. Their fear was we'd run out of addresses. Well, we did and people simple solved the problem with cleverness instead of just expanding the address space.
The fact is now, entire corporations can run on a couple of class C address and leverage the power of NAT and proxies.
We do, it's called staging...
Writing to tape is realitively slow compared to writing to disk. We've got any array of cheap 250GB SATA disks at our DR location.
We write fulls and incrementals to that disk array. Then we destage our fulls to tape at fixed intervals, which are then stored off site.
Moore's law comes into play... It's 16gb now, it'll probably be 32gb next quarter, then 64gb, etc.
Also, competition breeds advancements. Once they hit the 32 or the 64gb mark, the race will be on to build really huge solid state disks.
Personally, I think the spining platter has outlived it's welcome and it's time for it to go...