I wonder if the fine guys marking my post offtopic has read himself the fine article and associated documents./. is full of surprises, people are even moderating subjects they don't give a fuck to read about.
Who said it occurs as a single download and within a day? It was pretty clearly stated from the beginning Sony Pictures' breaking occurs over many months. You can perfectly transfer a lot of data to intermediate repositories within a large time span and collect data from intermediate repositories as needed. In fact, you must prefer this mode of operation to any other since a single large or very large chunk of data transfers will be noticed by security monitoring (don't laugh here, you should assume they have some).
True and false, yes it is a subsidiary of a Japanese Corporation, but when Sony in Japan ask questions, Sony Pictures doesn't answer and tell them to fuck off. Sony Pictures operates almost like the old Columbia Pictures days. This is one of the worst fusion/integration in the world. Sony Japan was never able or never express the will to fully integrate Sony Pictures. So, you should not make the error to consider it is answering to Sony Japan, it isn't.
Yes, there is a private enterprise involved, however the matter is piracy on american soil, breaking american laws by a foreign country. That is how a private matter becomes a POTUS matter. If you remove the foreign country from the equation, it is still a POTUS matter since it is related to the domestic laws and law enforcement is then involved.
You heard. So, how authoritative is then your own conclusion it has nothing to do with NK? Many people hear lot of things these days since the Internet was invented by Al Gore (for example).
Mod up parent post please. This is the most insightful comment so far on this subject.
The idea the human kind is destined to colonize the universe is just remanant from protestantism and religious beliefs where God gave the universe to Adam to rule over it, etc. But, at the end, there is just no purpose for universe colonization once we have reached the point we are able to make the journey to a solar system distant from ours by three light-years. We would have reached the point we can sustain life into the void without the Sun's energy for long periods of time and we are able to travel in mass on such a ship (required by the necessity of genetic diversity to survive as a spiece). What else is then needed?
A massively parallel system is not necessarily a GPU. GPU are a class of massively parallel systems, not the only one. For the rest of your post, other commenters reflected my thinking about it.
A single killer app is a niche. They already exists and they do not change anything more than require specialized hardware to get handled. You don't change a general purpose computer for a specialized one unless you are running only a single killer app and nothing else.
It seems pretty obvious many people comment here and have no exprience at all of parallel programming and parallel architectures. Also, it would help a bit to read not only the article but the other refered links.
It won't turn wrong. Linus is right on this one. We are talking about massively-parallel computing and Linus describes it right. It is a niche which will need specific algorithms tuned for the hardware (GPU or other) the pipeline must be kept busy to observe a performance gain. It doesn't scale to general purpose computing.
Bad idea, the initial investment must also be protected. Otherwise, it will become impossible for someone to get the money required to effectively produce something.
And that's you who are saying about my post: "Nice rhetorical argument with yourself..." I still don't see in you argument where this guy is absolutely needed and if he believes he is so precious to the world, why in first place putting his stuff on Gmail where, he is supposed to be the first to know, it isn't safe?
Perhaps it is time to make wikileaks leaking its own stuff to see?
Exactly! Well said. For previous poster, they got a warrant, everything is legit. Everytime a warrant is granted you can say the same and for any reason. So, what then? You may consider the whole legal system is not trustworthy if you wish, on my part, I consider it is better than nothing and completely arbitrary seizures. There is a process which is accountable behind the action. He can try to prove the seizure is abusive or something like that if he wishes. It is better than having the law inforcement officiers to do whatever they want. There is legal records of their actions here.
A guy got his metadata and mailbox transmitted to law enforcement under an official valid federal warrant. It happens everyday. Oh! Wait, this is Wikileaks guy and he is supposed to be above the law, he is supposed to be some kind of semi-god and untouchable by any regulation in any country around the world. What do the OP expect from the/. community? A revolution? He wants people to knock at the door of the White House to tell Obama to immediately stop harassement otherwise, otherwise what?
I'm a bit tired of these "prima dona".
If you don't want your stuff to be seized by US government, put it elsewhere where the US government has no juridiction.
Of course, however when you look at where the global population growth will occur despite the mortality rate, etc, it is in developing countries the bulk of the global population growth will occur. So, it doesn't change the conclusion in developed countries there is not population problem, except a too low birth rate to meet the requirements for the population to renew itself. Hence, the need to open the doors wide to immigration to compensate for a too low birth rate. As someone living in a developed country, deciding to not have children because the global population growth is too large is just an irrelevant decision about a real problem. There is nothing you can do in a developed country for this problem. It must be addressed in developing countries and poor countries.
The problem is not having children in developed countries doesn't change anything at all. The largest growing populations are in poor and developing countries. In fact, there is no population problem in developed countries, we are welcoming immigrants each year otherwise our economy would collapse within a few decades.
The proper way to answer to an on-going attack is to redirect traffic to analysis site and collect the information or go off-line. Responding to an on-going attack by an attack is not a defensive/self-defense reaction, it is an offensive reaction the site you target is then, following the same logic, completely entitled to reply to in turn. If you believe your reply is legitimate, the reply of the sites you then attack is also legitimate. You cannot pretend you have properly identify the authors when an attack is on-going. Most of them are perpetrated via other hijacked sites, you are just attacking hijacked sites and not the hijackers.
Now, an aftermath attack is retaliation.
If you cannot analyze the attack, the best self-defense is to go off-line to stop the attack.
If someone can explain, I don't understand why he is mapping to Linux distros. The W3Techs.com site just give the distribution of various versions of PHP and the percentage of these. I just did a spreadsheet using only the numbers from W3Techs.com and I am getting something like: 27.1% secure and 72.9% unsecure. Not that is a big difference, however it evades me why he is mapping everything to a Linux distro given many distros are missing in his analysis. Any hints?
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I wonder if the fine guys marking my post offtopic has read himself the fine article and associated documents. /. is full of surprises, people are even moderating subjects they don't give a fuck to read about.
You can temper with timestamps.
Who said it occurs as a single download and within a day? It was pretty clearly stated from the beginning Sony Pictures' breaking occurs over many months. You can perfectly transfer a lot of data to intermediate repositories within a large time span and collect data from intermediate repositories as needed. In fact, you must prefer this mode of operation to any other since a single large or very large chunk of data transfers will be noticed by security monitoring (don't laugh here, you should assume they have some).
True and false, yes it is a subsidiary of a Japanese Corporation, but when Sony in Japan ask questions, Sony Pictures doesn't answer and tell them to fuck off. Sony Pictures operates almost like the old Columbia Pictures days. This is one of the worst fusion/integration in the world. Sony Japan was never able or never express the will to fully integrate Sony Pictures. So, you should not make the error to consider it is answering to Sony Japan, it isn't.
Private matter? How is that?
Yes, there is a private enterprise involved, however the matter is piracy on american soil, breaking american laws by a foreign country. That is how a private matter becomes a POTUS matter. If you remove the foreign country from the equation, it is still a POTUS matter since it is related to the domestic laws and law enforcement is then involved.
"There is two things that are infinite: the universe and the internet; and I am not sure about the universe."
- Albert Einstein -
You heard. So, how authoritative is then your own conclusion it has nothing to do with NK? Many people hear lot of things these days since the Internet was invented by Al Gore (for example).
Mod up parent post please. This is the most insightful comment so far on this subject.
The idea the human kind is destined to colonize the universe is just remanant from protestantism and religious beliefs where God gave the universe to Adam to rule over it, etc. But, at the end, there is just no purpose for universe colonization once we have reached the point we are able to make the journey to a solar system distant from ours by three light-years. We would have reached the point we can sustain life into the void without the Sun's energy for long periods of time and we are able to travel in mass on such a ship (required by the necessity of genetic diversity to survive as a spiece). What else is then needed?
A massively parallel system is not necessarily a GPU. GPU are a class of massively parallel systems, not the only one. For the rest of your post, other commenters reflected my thinking about it.
A single killer app is a niche. They already exists and they do not change anything more than require specialized hardware to get handled. You don't change a general purpose computer for a specialized one unless you are running only a single killer app and nothing else.
It seems pretty obvious many people comment here and have no exprience at all of parallel programming and parallel architectures. Also, it would help a bit to read not only the article but the other refered links.
It won't turn wrong. Linus is right on this one. We are talking about massively-parallel computing and Linus describes it right. It is a niche which will need specific algorithms tuned for the hardware (GPU or other) the pipeline must be kept busy to observe a performance gain. It doesn't scale to general purpose computing.
Bad idea, the initial investment must also be protected. Otherwise, it will become impossible for someone to get the money required to effectively produce something.
And that's you who are saying about my post: "Nice rhetorical argument with yourself..." I still don't see in you argument where this guy is absolutely needed and if he believes he is so precious to the world, why in first place putting his stuff on Gmail where, he is supposed to be the first to know, it isn't safe?
Perhaps it is time to make wikileaks leaking its own stuff to see?
Exactly! Well said. For previous poster, they got a warrant, everything is legit. Everytime a warrant is granted you can say the same and for any reason. So, what then? You may consider the whole legal system is not trustworthy if you wish, on my part, I consider it is better than nothing and completely arbitrary seizures. There is a process which is accountable behind the action. He can try to prove the seizure is abusive or something like that if he wishes. It is better than having the law inforcement officiers to do whatever they want. There is legal records of their actions here.
A guy got his metadata and mailbox transmitted to law enforcement under an official valid federal warrant. It happens everyday. Oh! Wait, this is Wikileaks guy and he is supposed to be above the law, he is supposed to be some kind of semi-god and untouchable by any regulation in any country around the world. What do the OP expect from the /. community? A revolution? He wants people to knock at the door of the White House to tell Obama to immediately stop harassement otherwise, otherwise what?
I'm a bit tired of these "prima dona".
If you don't want your stuff to be seized by US government, put it elsewhere where the US government has no juridiction.
I don't know, maybe they are paying rights to Sony Pictures and it will boost sales by 100 000 copies.
Of course, however when you look at where the global population growth will occur despite the mortality rate, etc, it is in developing countries the bulk of the global population growth will occur. So, it doesn't change the conclusion in developed countries there is not population problem, except a too low birth rate to meet the requirements for the population to renew itself. Hence, the need to open the doors wide to immigration to compensate for a too low birth rate. As someone living in a developed country, deciding to not have children because the global population growth is too large is just an irrelevant decision about a real problem. There is nothing you can do in a developed country for this problem. It must be addressed in developing countries and poor countries.
The problem is not having children in developed countries doesn't change anything at all. The largest growing populations are in poor and developing countries. In fact, there is no population problem in developed countries, we are welcoming immigrants each year otherwise our economy would collapse within a few decades.
The proper way to answer to an on-going attack is to redirect traffic to analysis site and collect the information or go off-line. Responding to an on-going attack by an attack is not a defensive/self-defense reaction, it is an offensive reaction the site you target is then, following the same logic, completely entitled to reply to in turn. If you believe your reply is legitimate, the reply of the sites you then attack is also legitimate. You cannot pretend you have properly identify the authors when an attack is on-going. Most of them are perpetrated via other hijacked sites, you are just attacking hijacked sites and not the hijackers.
Now, an aftermath attack is retaliation.
If you cannot analyze the attack, the best self-defense is to go off-line to stop the attack.
Ah! Thanks for the clarification.
I did exactly the reverse. I was tired of the bureaucratic bullshit.
If someone can explain, I don't understand why he is mapping to Linux distros. The W3Techs.com site just give the distribution of various versions of PHP and the percentage of these. I just did a spreadsheet using only the numbers from W3Techs.com and I am getting something like: 27.1% secure and 72.9% unsecure. Not that is a big difference, however it evades me why he is mapping everything to a Linux distro given many distros are missing in his analysis. Any hints?
Almost.
Like everyone of us.