Was it some cracker using a root exploit in OpenSSH?;]
Seriously though, does anyone know how it happened yet? I have seen lots of talk about the trojan but nothing about how the trojan got there in the first place. This seems like it could be the tip of the iceberg.
Companies that deal with hardware are supportive of the DMCA (makers of DVD drives, CPUs, satellite broadcasters, etc.). The reason being that it is *very* expensive for them to fix a security problem once the hardware is being sold out in the field. It involves costly recalls, shipping and reassembly. Sometimes a "fix" can be handled in firmware but not always.
Companies that deal with software are less supporting of DMCA. If they have a bug in their software, they whip out a patch, put it on their webpage and tell people to install it themselves. They have little to lose if someone hacks around their software since they can more cheaply play a game of cat and mouse with the hackers with the full source code at their disposal where the hacker has none of the proprietary code.
Using a process known as quantum entanglement, the researchers, led by 34-year-old physicist Ping Koy Lam, have disassembled a laser at one end of an optical communications system and recreated a replica a metre away.
Quantum entanglement allows what Einstein termed a "spooky interaction" at a distance between two objects at the speed of light.
An encoded radio signal is embedded on an input laser, which is combined with entanglement and then scanned. The laser is destroyed in the process.
But the radio signal survives and is sent electronically to a receiving station, where within a nanosecond an exact replica of the beam - with the radio signal intact - is retrieved and decoded.
Am I missing something or are they doing this quantum entanglement at over 3 times the speed of light? 1 m/ns = 1 000 000 000 m/s = 3.3 c
George Lucas actually _listened_ to the fans and the complaints about EP1.
Jar Jar featured far less promenently in EP2. I can only hope that he is keeping him around for EP3 to promenently feature his exploding death.
He also did not feature any nameless boy bands in EP2 AFAICT. Not that he couldn't have snuck them in somewhere still... I'll leave that search to the SW purists.
Too bad he didn't listen to the other suggestions of getting someone else to write the dialog (like he did in TESB)... peeee yeeew!
From the BBC article: "And if this (poor) person did become the first human to stand on the red soil of Mars, what would they say? Discuss."
My vote: "One small step for the poor... one giant wack of cash that could have feed my whole country for a century!"
What kind of foolish idea is that?
Send the mission up there for it scientific and space infrastructural merit, not for political propeganda.
That is a great big slap in the face of a poor country to give them such a token part of a project. That is kind of like burning a bale of money and warming up a cup of tea over the flames for them to drink.
you just wait! It will come back eventually. They all do. It will need to take advantage of that socialised medicine when it gets old and neglected (due to the shift to true north available via GPS)
I never did hear a real reason, other than ideals, for doing it.
Is there any better reason to do things than "ideals".
If you speculate a little bit about the future, there will be plenty of other reasons to have Freenet as an option when the RIAA and MPAA start going after individuals for sharing things they don't think you should (like decss for instance).
It won't help the US's current worry about technology transfer into their enemies hands when one of these puppies drops into Sadam's backyard. Think about it! It will be built to withstand a launch failure in tact therefore it will most definitely survive re-entry.
Or is that the plan..."You mean we filled that one with purified plutonium and it blew up on impact??? How did *that* happen???"
As a Roger's customer I can safely say that this is a load of crap! Roger's is using bandwidth hogs as a scapegoat for their shoddy service. The real culprits are:
1) Lancity modems that are incompatible with their new network (as I painfully found out when they switched fromthe @home network)
2) Misconfigured DHCP servers that give out the same IP to multiple NICs (I have had that happen too)
3) Overloading local loops with more customers then it can handle
4) Oversaturating the networks gateway onto the internet backbone (looking at the traceroutes the pings always take a giant leap on the next router after their network)
5) Incompetant help-desk. Have you ever talked to these guys!!! They give you as many different excuses as different people that you talk to... all blaming you for the problem of course. When you get a straight answer out of them (local server troubles/maintenance) they go talk to their supervisor and come back with a different reason... blaming you, of course.
They advertise that they give you *up to* 3Mbit/s but I have rarely gotten that... maybe 5 transfers in the 3 years that I've had the service.
The big problem is that the only other option is to go with Bell Sympatico and from what I have heard, they are no better and worse in many respects including what you are allowed to do with your internet time.
Could they not just implement some traffic shaping that gives each IP an equal share of the pipe?
The only way that Mono has a chance to avoid the old standard extension trick that Microsoft always plays is to get a critical mass of corporate partners to back their implementation. This license switch seems like a small price to play to get some heavy-weights onboard.
This was one thing that differentiated Ultima from Everquest. The makers of Everquest opposed the real life selling/buying of virtual assets. Ultima Online, while not directly endorsing it, offically turns a blind eye to this type of trading knowing that it boosted their player base.
One steady economy that arose on UO was lumber and ingot supply. Due to the skill point cap, Bowyers/tinkers/armourers/weaponsmmiths didn't want to also use up skill points for mining/lumberjacking since that would restrict them from learning combat skills. To fill this void, lumberjacks and miners sprung up selling lumber and ingots on eBay. They can pretty much make a living at it if they can drum up some loyal consumers (by being always ready to supply goods to satisfy their demand and being honest) to keep a steady flow of goods.
Do a search on eBay... I think that a lot of people would be suprised to see how much of this sort of thing goes on day to day.
People are not stupid ...
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If online games offer some service that gives them value for their money then they will pay for it. If it is just to allow them to do somethng that they would have been able to for free if the restrictions were not there, then they won't pay.
For example, Ultima Online and Everquest are the only successful games that do this that I know of (I'm sure that there are more). They justify this by adding more game elements and storylines on a continual basis.
Everyone would stop p(l)aying as soon as they stopped adding features and fixing bugs.
The author uses google in this context meaning 10^100 I believe. I am not the world's greatest speller and was shocked the other day to find out that the term is named "googol".
Is this an example of brand popularity affecting language? Or am I wrong and are there two proper spellings? The dictionary I referenced (gdict) didn't mention "google" at all.
I just made a DNS redirect (part of the compression algorithm... call it intercomp v1.1) on my local machine that maps "a" to "http://monmothas.shacknet.nu". Now with all the overhead of http I'll bet that the size of the reply will be bigger than 100 bytes.
Joking aside though... what my complaint was that it is *not* impossible to compress a certain subset of random data. The smaller your set of data... the tricker it becomes until it is impossible with one bit of info. What is impossible is to compress *all* random data to a size (including the compressor) that is smaller than the original in *all* cases. However, this is not what their marketing weasles claim at all. If they have found a method to shrink a useful subset of random data down by a high ratio then great... when was the last time that you communicated a large chunk of *truly* random data anyways.
A point that is continually missed with all the people pooh-poohing their claims is that their marketing dept. is not likely to factor in the size of the compression/decompression engine when making their claims. I can see that is it quite possible to claim 100:1 compression rates on a block of random data if your compressor/decompressor is over 100 times the size of any block. What is impossible would be if you were talking about those compression ratios on the data plus the engine.
I just invented a compression decompression engine that can get better than 100:1 on any random file on the internet... it's called a URL... unfortunately the size of my engine is the size of the internet:]
Sorry I don't get anything useful from this site. All I get is an error:
"404.69 Lobotomy Error... this site is run by a moron. Please send a self-addressed life to... "
that everyone keep quiet if they see a fire in a crowded apartment building because, horror of horrors, people will actually try to save themselves rather than waiting for the MFD to come and save them (market forces permitting, of course).
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Seriously though, does anyone know how it happened yet? I have seen lots of talk about the trojan but nothing about how the trojan got there in the first place. This seems like it could be the tip of the iceberg.
Companies that deal with software are less supporting of DMCA. If they have a bug in their software, they whip out a patch, put it on their webpage and tell people to install it themselves. They have little to lose if someone hacks around their software since they can more cheaply play a game of cat and mouse with the hackers with the full source code at their disposal where the hacker has none of the proprietary code.
"The chicken little that cried asteroid"
Using a process known as quantum entanglement, the researchers, led by 34-year-old physicist Ping Koy Lam, have disassembled a laser at one end of an optical communications system and recreated a replica a metre away.
Quantum entanglement allows what Einstein termed a "spooky interaction" at a distance between two objects at the speed of light.
An encoded radio signal is embedded on an input laser, which is combined with entanglement and then scanned. The laser is destroyed in the process.
But the radio signal survives and is sent electronically to a receiving station, where within a nanosecond an exact replica of the beam - with the radio signal intact - is retrieved and decoded.
Am I missing something or are they doing this quantum entanglement at over 3 times the speed of light? 1 m/ns = 1 000 000 000 m/s = 3.3 c
where c=299 792 458 m/s
This process is getting spookier and spookier.
George Lucas actually _listened_ to the fans and the complaints about EP1.
... I'll leave that search to the SW purists.
... peeee yeeew!
Jar Jar featured far less promenently in EP2. I can only hope that he is keeping him around for EP3 to promenently feature his exploding death.
He also did not feature any nameless boy bands in EP2 AFAICT. Not that he couldn't have snuck them in somewhere still
Too bad he didn't listen to the other suggestions of getting someone else to write the dialog (like he did in TESB)
From the BBC article:
... one giant wack of cash that could have feed my whole country for a century!"
"And if this (poor) person did become the first human to stand on the red soil of Mars, what would they say? Discuss."
My vote:
"One small step for the poor
What kind of foolish idea is that?
Send the mission up there for it scientific and space infrastructural merit, not for political propeganda.
That is a great big slap in the face of a poor country to give them such a token part of a project. That is kind of like burning a bale of money and warming up a cup of tea over the flames for them to drink.
you just wait! It will come back eventually. They all do. It will need to take advantage of that socialised medicine when it gets old and neglected (due to the shift to true north available via GPS)
Is there any better reason to do things than "ideals".
If you speculate a little bit about the future, there will be plenty of other reasons to have Freenet as an option when the RIAA and MPAA start going after individuals for sharing things they don't think you should (like decss for instance).
Ummmm ... isn't *every* Canadian apartment or house within 2 to 3 minutes of a Tim Horton's? ;]
Time to send the code underground a la decss.
Or is that the plan ..."You mean we filled that one with purified plutonium and it blew up on impact??? How did *that* happen???"
1) Lancity modems that are incompatible with their new network (as I painfully found out when they switched fromthe @home network)
2) Misconfigured DHCP servers that give out the same IP to multiple NICs (I have had that happen too)
3) Overloading local loops with more customers then it can handle
4) Oversaturating the networks gateway onto the internet backbone (looking at the traceroutes the pings always take a giant leap on the next router after their network)
5) Incompetant help-desk. Have you ever talked to these guys!!! They give you as many different excuses as different people that you talk to ... all blaming you for the problem of course. When you get a straight answer out of them (local server troubles/maintenance) they go talk to their supervisor and come back with a different reason ... blaming you, of course.
They advertise that they give you *up to* 3Mbit/s but I have rarely gotten that ... maybe 5 transfers in the 3 years that I've had the service.
The big problem is that the only other option is to go with Bell Sympatico and from what I have heard, they are no better and worse in many respects including what you are allowed to do with your internet time.
Could they not just implement some traffic shaping that gives each IP an equal share of the pipe?
The only way that Mono has a chance to avoid the old standard extension trick that Microsoft always plays is to get a critical mass of corporate partners to back their implementation. This license switch seems like a small price to play to get some heavy-weights onboard.
One steady economy that arose on UO was lumber and ingot supply. Due to the skill point cap, Bowyers/tinkers/armourers/weaponsmmiths didn't want to also use up skill points for mining/lumberjacking since that would restrict them from learning combat skills. To fill this void, lumberjacks and miners sprung up selling lumber and ingots on eBay. They can pretty much make a living at it if they can drum up some loyal consumers (by being always ready to supply goods to satisfy their demand and being honest) to keep a steady flow of goods.
Do a search on eBay ... I think that a lot of people would be suprised to see how much of this sort of thing goes on day to day.
For example, Ultima Online and Everquest are the only successful games that do this that I know of (I'm sure that there are more). They justify this by adding more game elements and storylines on a continual basis.
Everyone would stop p(l)aying as soon as they stopped adding features and fixing bugs.
Is this an example of brand popularity affecting language? Or am I wrong and are there two proper spellings? The dictionary I referenced (gdict) didn't mention "google" at all.
Joking aside though ... what my complaint was that it is *not* impossible to compress a certain subset of random data. The smaller your set of data ... the tricker it becomes until it is impossible with one bit of info. What is impossible is to compress *all* random data to a size (including the compressor) that is smaller than the original in *all* cases. However, this is not what their marketing weasles claim at all. If they have found a method to shrink a useful subset of random data down by a high ratio then great ... when was the last time that you communicated a large chunk of *truly* random data anyways.
A point that is continually missed with all the people pooh-poohing their claims is that their marketing dept. is not likely to factor in the size of the compression/decompression engine when making their claims. I can see that is it quite possible to claim 100:1 compression rates on a block of random data if your compressor/decompressor is over 100 times the size of any block. What is impossible would be if you were talking about those compression ratios on the data plus the engine. I just invented a compression decompression engine that can get better than 100:1 on any random file on the internet ... it's called a URL ... unfortunately the size of my engine is the size of the internet :]
Sorry I don't get anything useful from this site. All I get is an error: "404.69 Lobotomy Error ... this site is run by a moron. Please send a self-addressed life to ... "
or can the OS turn off power to the sockets first as well as not use them in preparation for exchange?
that everyone keep quiet if they see a fire in a crowded apartment building because, horror of horrors, people will actually try to save themselves rather than waiting for the MFD to come and save them (market forces permitting, of course).