There is a big difference between standards and homogeneity. 802.11x is a standard but the market is far from homogeneous, in fact the best markets out there are those which have unified standards and multiple companies competing. Best for the consumer that is.
One of the major causes of the Potato famine in Ireland was the reliance on a single product (the potato) and an inability to shift to a more varied diet. Things like ILoveYou and Conflicker are preying on exactly the same homogeneous environment as they know that hitting one element yields massive results.
Now given that this homogeneity has been driven in part via a convicted monopolist then it really is interesting how little political attention this gets. Arguably these sorts of attacks are more of a modern challenge than "traditional" terrorism and against a background of economic woe we can all do without a bunch of companies getting taken offline for a few days or suffering from industrial espionage.
We don't learn from history, we don't apply history to new cases we just stand back in amazement after letting homogeneity develop at the impact that a relatively simple flaw can have across a large group of people.
You seem to equate "balance" with "both sides get equal coverage". This is one of the nonsense things that the Beeb does do badly at the moment, it doesn't matter how nut-job the opposing view is they always seem to have someone giving that perspective. Why aren't there gushing bits on Iran? Well the Beeb has done things on Iran around the normal populace and it not being as nut-job as its leadership, but the leadership is verifiably nut-job.
If you want to see anti-US coverage on the Beeb just look at anything that deals with religion in the US, pretty much every channel in the UK, BBC included, covers the Christian Coalition mob in the US as a bunch of nut-jobs.
The Beeb isn't perfect, in fact to paraphrase Churchill its the worst kind of journalism, except when compared will all the other choices.
Probably more likely that its people from abroad, especially the EU, who really don't want to move to the US with its much less protective legislation. A smart US based IBM employee should be signing up for the move to France, Germany or Scandanavia, better healthcare, that isn't linked to your employer, better food (in France anyway) and a chance to completely change your perspective on life.
Now it would be interesting what the odds are on IBM allowing a US to France transfer.
I mean apart from in the US where the media appears to have become scared of actually questioning politicians or holding them to account. Journalism in the UK still seems to find the dirt on politicians and companies and deep investigative exercises are still carried out in lots of different areas.
The basic issue in the US is the partisan nature of both politics and the media, why bother to investigate when its all basically just monkeys throwing shit at a wall. Blogs and the internet are unlikely to change that as its just going to be the same partisan stuff with slightly different shit.
When the likes of Jon Stewart are the finest investigative political journalists that your country has then you know you are in trouble.
But those are things that even 100 years ago would be COMPLETELY and UTTERLY lost to us. So the issue isn't that the new approaches are worse its that it is now possible to retain MORE information than we've ever managed to retain before.
Do we know what George Washington said every day while he was president? No we don't. Do we know what Napoleon said ever day? no we don't. But now we have the ability to retain a million times more information and know much more than we have ever known before.
The iridium tablet is a nonsense argument because a pitifully small amount of information could be stored that way and the reason that Shakespeare's plays are known today is due to the duplication rather than a single original source. This is the same for most historical texts, they have survived because they have been copied.
Seriously what a piece of complete and utter rubbish. From Ancient Egypt we have an extremely limited set of information because stone tablets crack and they aren't exactly the most portable things in the world. Go through to the Romans and paper, and the Chinese and you are seeing massively more information become available down the centuries. Zoom forwards into the 14th Century and we have a massively detailed view of what life was like which becomes more and more detailed as time goes by. The key here is detail, the amount of information in Ancient Egypt was huge, probably comparable to today, but the amount that was etched onto pyramids was tiny and quite a lot of that didn't survive anyway.
The key things that future historians need are prime sources and one thing that the internet is massively impressive at is the duplication of information and the avoidance of redundancy. Stone is rubbish for this, no-one bothers making copies so you lose the original and you lose everything.
Printing introduced simpler copies which meant that the information was more likely to survive down the years. With modern digital technology this increases still further. It is ridiculous to claim that digitally we won't have more information about the major events and people of today which is available in 400 years. We will have more CRAP available in 400 years (blogs, twitter, Slashdot) than any generation of historians have had to wade through.
Digital technology makes accurate duplication simple and that is the most powerful way to make sure information survives. Wikileaks is the embodiment of that view. The issue is that there is now SO MUCH CRAP that the issue for future historians will be in wading through all of the blog posts of "Obama is a Muslim" to find out that in fact he wasn't.
A rubbish supposition which is massively undermined by every time there is a censorship case the plea to "mirror the information".
Some information will be lost but the amount that will survive is miles higher than the amount of information that survived from Ancient Egypt. For instance its amazing to Bible Literalists that NOT ONCE in their SIX THOUSAND YEARS OF RECORDED HISTORY did the ancient Egyptians ever mention all getting drowned in a global flood... and you'd have thought they'd have noticed that.
Apart from the obvious flaw "with Vista Ultimate" the basic problem is that Apple are shiny, Apple are cool, Apple are the sort of thing that people buy because its Apple.
This is basically like K-Mart trying to make a Nike Trainer, sure it looks similar, sure it appears to have similar specs... but you know what, if I'm spending that sort of cash on something I think I'll go for the brand.
Errr not ver 1337 are you? Now clearly the 1337 anniversary will be more significant but after all this is the telephone therefore 133 Telephone anniversary or 133t to give it its correct name is a highly significant geek anniversary.
I've been there it sucks. I was hoping to get some decent snowboarding in but there wasn't any powder and the ice was just shredded into pieces more like rocks than ice if you ask me. In the end we just gave up and went to Titan where the conditions are always reliable.
Now you might see it at refreshing that politicians think they can legislate on scientific issues but this is really just a less idiotic case of people legislating PI to be 3. Those folks didn't deny the existence of PI but they did think that the legislature could control its definition.
Lets get more blunt. Depending on what you are doing and if you want to worry about failover then 1000 a day is bugger all. Simple set up of Apache and Tomcat (if using Java) with running round-robin load-balancing will give you pretty much what you need.
If however you really are worried about scale up and scale down then have a look at Amazon Web Services as that will probably more cost effective to cope with a peak IF it occurs rather than buying 6 servers to do bugger all most of the time.
2 boxes for hardware failover will do you fine, if you are worried about HA the its the COST of downtime that you are worried about (i.e. down for an hour exceeds $1000 in lost revenue) which will justify the solution. Don't just drive availability to five nines because you feel its cool, do it because the business requires it.
The difference is that while EVERYONE had guns that could fire something inaccurately over a long distance these guns had a few rather special features.
Firstly they are all the same, no variability which means that the shot can be made more precisely and firing can be made more accurate
Secondly their recoil was able to throw the gun back into the ship consistently (read straight) due to the level of accuracy, this meant that the guns could be reloaded quicker
These combinations also meant that the guns could be used effectively in a broadside with standardised shot rather than having shot "tuned" to each individual gun.
So while the Dutch may have invented the stock exchange and orange carrots the guns used here by the Brits (strictly actually the English at this stage) were the first "modern" cannons if such a term can be used.
Office 2007 made me feel stupid! I couldn't find the button to bold something.
Seriously? I mean I'm not a big fan of the Ribbon but if you couldn't find the bold bit, Ctrl-B or its there on the HOME tab, then its not Office 2007 making you feel stupid. Now picture alignment and others can take getting used to but bold?
Anyway for those of us that like Emacs Office 2007 hasn't gone far enough in hiding stuff, I want obscure macros and at least six key control sequences.
Complaining about the complexity of Word menu structures.... what has Slashdot come to?
And what a set of questions they are "are you a Nazi", "Are you a terrorist" "have you committed an act of Moral turpitude".
Personally the online thing is better than the paper thing but its the added pieces that were electronic before that annoy me like "what hotel are you staying at" including the zip code. I'm flying in on business, its the downtown Marriot/Hilton/Holiday Grim WTF do I need to know the street number and zip code for? I'll just get in a Taxi.
The bit I really object to however is the fingerprints and the photo and the putting 4 people to handle two 747s of Europeans and 6 people to process the US Citizens. Oh and the dumb questions
Immigration: "How much money do you have on you in dollars" Me : "None" I: How will you support yourself then? Me: Credit Cards I: What if they don't work Me: They do and I've got loads I: But what if they don't Me: I'll ask my office to advance me some cash and get AMERICAN EXPRESS to send me a replacement I: How will you get your office to send you cash? Me: Because they have an office downtown, I'll just walk in I: But you said you were just here for a meeting, why does your company have an office here
I mean WTF am I meant to answer to that thread of "questioning" from Sherlock ruddy Holmes.
I like the US but US immigration is by far the worst in the world and destroys all enjoyment about arriving in the country.
The A380 is too big and heavy for the vast majority of runways in the world.
Too "Heavy" is an unusual problem for a concrete runway
What you mean is that runways are too short for the A380, but of course it can take off and land in the same space as a 747, the only adaptations for the A380 are to the terminal buildings to handle the double decker. This isn't an issue for Air Force One as the president just walks down a set of stairs that are rolled up to the plane.
There are no technical challenges for AF1 being an A380 that wouldn't apply to the 747.
I'm assuming therefore that you wouldn't be in favour of the "right to defend yourself" as it applies to physical assault. After all if someone tries to rob you and you smash them over the head/shoot them/batter them with a baseball bat then you are becoming a criminal because if you did that normally then it would be unethical/immoral/etc
Get down off your high-horse and stop seeing piracy as a right. Its theft and in the same way as if you break into my house I have the right to defend myself then why don't I have the right to defend myself when you steal my software?
One thing that I've been switching to recently has been backing up not just the disk or data but creating a full virtual machine backup of the server. Space wise this can be a big hit so incremental data backups are done daily, with a full VM hit once a month alongside the full data dump. Now I'm shifting to doing a daily VM in addition which gives me the last close of play.
The reason for this is restore time, if it takes a few days to restore then its a right pain (or for some companies fatal) but a VM restore I can fire up on temporary kit in a matter of an hour or less and give a downgraded service while we patch up the full servers.
1) The iPhone is the biggest selling single phone on the market, hell they've a 1/3 of the whole market with one device 2) The iPod is the biggest selling digital music player by a mile 3) iTunes is one of the easiest to use ways of managing your digital music collection
So will the vast majority of people give any sort of hoot about DRM when all they can see is their ability to share the music between their PCs and their digital music player? No they will not.
All this will do is demonstrate how pointless the actual demonstration is, thus meaning that Apple will be less likely to be concerned.
For most people the question isn't DRM-free its "playable on my iPod".
Since when couldn't Gasoline be used in Cars? Isn't the whole principle of it to make it explode to drive the pistons? Now its good that this thing allegedly won't explode while being charged but with all technologies its about minimising risks through sensible practice rather than their complete elimination.
For instance I'd be willing to bet that applying 10MV at 10MA across this thing would cause some pretty funky changes that would look like an explosion.
Personally I'd like to see some sort of Darwin device in the next generation of cars, "cannot explode unless user should be removed from the human race".
This isn't about transparent government v security. Security through Obscurity is the well known worst approach to security that you can have, because if anyone ever does get that information (hell bribing a sys admin can't be that hard if you really want the info) then your have no security.
Its a bogus claim and a bogus judgement. If they were claiming that it shouldn't be released because editing Wikipedia isn't actually a political thing anyway then I could see a reason to toss it out. But the risk of hackers "targetting" bits of the network is just plain bogus, the implication is that these IP addresses are therefore in some secure part of the (ARKANSAS!) government and those IP addresses have already been released. What is being asked is a map back from a known IP address to its source. Claiming that knowing the physical source would some how make security worse is like saying that "Sure you have the keys, you know where the front door is and you can get in.... but I'm not telling you the NAME of the house".
Having the IP address is like having 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and the keys to the door but the government not telling you that it is called the "Whitehouse" for security reasons.
Who hear who codes in C or C++ hasn't had a similar bug in their own code from time to time
What are these bugs of which you speak? Sometimes I add problems for the testers to find, but that is done on purpose, its not my fault if they aren't smart enough.
Oh and I've debugged your english for you
Who here
Unless that was irony.
Now the serious bit. I used to work in safety critical software, we designed, tested added redundancy and used languages (e.g. Ada) which don't have overflow problems. This isn't a performance thing (we had to be high performance as well) its about choosing quality and security from the first day.
The biggest reason of all is interop. A piece of Java code that runs in 32 bit mode successfully will wrap around and work exactly the same on the 64 bit platform. Perl will work differently. if a piece of Java calls a piece of identical Java and one is on 32 bit and the other 64 bit then they will work properly, Perl will behave erratically.
Basically its the difference between a language that has been designed for longevity (Java) and one that just defaults to what ever is around (Perl).
Defaulting to what the processor has is the opposite of future proofing as it ensures that your current code WON'T WORK PROPERLY IN THE FUTURE. Sorry to shout but it really is quite important. The Java code will work the same on 32 bit and 64 bit versions while the Perl will work differently, thus it will not be future proof.
To really future proof your code what you need to do is plan for those things and assign your file size to be a long and guess what Java returns a long.
Perl and Design go together in the same way as Illinois and Probity.
Errr I'm taking a massive shot in the dark here but I'm guessing that the motivation would be
CONCERN ABOUT THE MASSIVE SUBVERSION OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND THE CONSTITUTION
I mean I know its a crazy mad sort of idea that someone might be motivated by decency and the desire for what is right rather than some political ideology. When George W. Bush and Dick Cheney talk about the principles of American freedom... well that is what this man has stood up to defend.
How sad that its the defender of freedom who is being shafted, while those who look to subvert the constitution are getting away scot free.
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There is a big difference between standards and homogeneity. 802.11x is a standard but the market is far from homogeneous, in fact the best markets out there are those which have unified standards and multiple companies competing. Best for the consumer that is.
One of the major causes of the Potato famine in Ireland was the reliance on a single product (the potato) and an inability to shift to a more varied diet. Things like ILoveYou and Conflicker are preying on exactly the same homogeneous environment as they know that hitting one element yields massive results.
Now given that this homogeneity has been driven in part via a convicted monopolist then it really is interesting how little political attention this gets. Arguably these sorts of attacks are more of a modern challenge than "traditional" terrorism and against a background of economic woe we can all do without a bunch of companies getting taken offline for a few days or suffering from industrial espionage.
We don't learn from history, we don't apply history to new cases we just stand back in amazement after letting homogeneity develop at the impact that a relatively simple flaw can have across a large group of people.
the copy is forensically marked
Ummm if this was true then it wouldn't be an issue of asking the FBI to investigate it would be a matter of telling the FBI which guy to arrest.
It will be interesting to see how long it takes to secure a conviction in this case and just how truthful the statements on protection are.
You seem to equate "balance" with "both sides get equal coverage". This is one of the nonsense things that the Beeb does do badly at the moment, it doesn't matter how nut-job the opposing view is they always seem to have someone giving that perspective. Why aren't there gushing bits on Iran? Well the Beeb has done things on Iran around the normal populace and it not being as nut-job as its leadership, but the leadership is verifiably nut-job.
If you want to see anti-US coverage on the Beeb just look at anything that deals with religion in the US, pretty much every channel in the UK, BBC included, covers the Christian Coalition mob in the US as a bunch of nut-jobs.
The Beeb isn't perfect, in fact to paraphrase Churchill its the worst kind of journalism, except when compared will all the other choices.
Probably more likely that its people from abroad, especially the EU, who really don't want to move to the US with its much less protective legislation. A smart US based IBM employee should be signing up for the move to France, Germany or Scandanavia, better healthcare, that isn't linked to your employer, better food (in France anyway) and a chance to completely change your perspective on life.
Now it would be interesting what the odds are on IBM allowing a US to France transfer.
I mean apart from in the US where the media appears to have become scared of actually questioning politicians or holding them to account. Journalism in the UK still seems to find the dirt on politicians and companies and deep investigative exercises are still carried out in lots of different areas.
The basic issue in the US is the partisan nature of both politics and the media, why bother to investigate when its all basically just monkeys throwing shit at a wall. Blogs and the internet are unlikely to change that as its just going to be the same partisan stuff with slightly different shit.
When the likes of Jon Stewart are the finest investigative political journalists that your country has then you know you are in trouble.
But those are things that even 100 years ago would be COMPLETELY and UTTERLY lost to us. So the issue isn't that the new approaches are worse its that it is now possible to retain MORE information than we've ever managed to retain before.
Do we know what George Washington said every day while he was president? No we don't. Do we know what Napoleon said ever day? no we don't. But now we have the ability to retain a million times more information and know much more than we have ever known before.
The iridium tablet is a nonsense argument because a pitifully small amount of information could be stored that way and the reason that Shakespeare's plays are known today is due to the duplication rather than a single original source. This is the same for most historical texts, they have survived because they have been copied.
Seriously what a piece of complete and utter rubbish. From Ancient Egypt we have an extremely limited set of information because stone tablets crack and they aren't exactly the most portable things in the world. Go through to the Romans and paper, and the Chinese and you are seeing massively more information become available down the centuries. Zoom forwards into the 14th Century and we have a massively detailed view of what life was like which becomes more and more detailed as time goes by. The key here is detail, the amount of information in Ancient Egypt was huge, probably comparable to today, but the amount that was etched onto pyramids was tiny and quite a lot of that didn't survive anyway.
The key things that future historians need are prime sources and one thing that the internet is massively impressive at is the duplication of information and the avoidance of redundancy. Stone is rubbish for this, no-one bothers making copies so you lose the original and you lose everything.
Printing introduced simpler copies which meant that the information was more likely to survive down the years. With modern digital technology this increases still further. It is ridiculous to claim that digitally we won't have more information about the major events and people of today which is available in 400 years. We will have more CRAP available in 400 years (blogs, twitter, Slashdot) than any generation of historians have had to wade through.
Digital technology makes accurate duplication simple and that is the most powerful way to make sure information survives. Wikileaks is the embodiment of that view. The issue is that there is now SO MUCH CRAP that the issue for future historians will be in wading through all of the blog posts of "Obama is a Muslim" to find out that in fact he wasn't.
A rubbish supposition which is massively undermined by every time there is a censorship case the plea to "mirror the information".
Some information will be lost but the amount that will survive is miles higher than the amount of information that survived from Ancient Egypt. For instance its amazing to Bible Literalists that NOT ONCE in their SIX THOUSAND YEARS OF RECORDED HISTORY did the ancient Egyptians ever mention all getting drowned in a global flood... and you'd have thought they'd have noticed that.
Apart from the obvious flaw "with Vista Ultimate" the basic problem is that Apple are shiny, Apple are cool, Apple are the sort of thing that people buy because its Apple.
This is basically like K-Mart trying to make a Nike Trainer, sure it looks similar, sure it appears to have similar specs... but you know what, if I'm spending that sort of cash on something I think I'll go for the brand.
Errr not ver 1337 are you? Now clearly the 1337 anniversary will be more significant but after all this is the telephone therefore 133 Telephone anniversary or 133t to give it its correct name is a highly significant geek anniversary.
Can't believe this wasn't obvious.
I've been there it sucks. I was hoping to get some decent snowboarding in but there wasn't any powder and the ice was just shredded into pieces more like rocks than ice if you ask me. In the end we just gave up and went to Titan where the conditions are always reliable.
Now you might see it at refreshing that politicians think they can legislate on scientific issues but this is really just a less idiotic case of people legislating PI to be 3. Those folks didn't deny the existence of PI but they did think that the legislature could control its definition.
Lets get more blunt. Depending on what you are doing and if you want to worry about failover then 1000 a day is bugger all. Simple set up of Apache and Tomcat (if using Java) with running round-robin load-balancing will give you pretty much what you need.
If however you really are worried about scale up and scale down then have a look at Amazon Web Services as that will probably more cost effective to cope with a peak IF it occurs rather than buying 6 servers to do bugger all most of the time.
2 boxes for hardware failover will do you fine, if you are worried about HA the its the COST of downtime that you are worried about (i.e. down for an hour exceeds $1000 in lost revenue) which will justify the solution. Don't just drive availability to five nines because you feel its cool, do it because the business requires it.
The difference is that while EVERYONE had guns that could fire something inaccurately over a long distance these guns had a few rather special features.
Firstly they are all the same, no variability which means that the shot can be made more precisely and firing can be made more accurate
Secondly their recoil was able to throw the gun back into the ship consistently (read straight) due to the level of accuracy, this meant that the guns could be reloaded quicker
These combinations also meant that the guns could be used effectively in a broadside with standardised shot rather than having shot "tuned" to each individual gun.
So while the Dutch may have invented the stock exchange and orange carrots the guns used here by the Brits (strictly actually the English at this stage) were the first "modern" cannons if such a term can be used.
Office 2007 made me feel stupid! I couldn't find the button to bold something.
Seriously? I mean I'm not a big fan of the Ribbon but if you couldn't find the bold bit, Ctrl-B or its there on the HOME tab, then its not Office 2007 making you feel stupid. Now picture alignment and others can take getting used to but bold?
Anyway for those of us that like Emacs Office 2007 hasn't gone far enough in hiding stuff, I want obscure macros and at least six key control sequences.
Complaining about the complexity of Word menu structures.... what has Slashdot come to?
And what a set of questions they are "are you a Nazi", "Are you a terrorist" "have you committed an act of Moral turpitude".
Personally the online thing is better than the paper thing but its the added pieces that were electronic before that annoy me like "what hotel are you staying at" including the zip code. I'm flying in on business, its the downtown Marriot/Hilton/Holiday Grim WTF do I need to know the street number and zip code for? I'll just get in a Taxi.
The bit I really object to however is the fingerprints and the photo and the putting 4 people to handle two 747s of Europeans and 6 people to process the US Citizens. Oh and the dumb questions
Immigration: "How much money do you have on you in dollars"
Me : "None"
I: How will you support yourself then?
Me: Credit Cards
I: What if they don't work
Me: They do and I've got loads
I: But what if they don't
Me: I'll ask my office to advance me some cash and get AMERICAN EXPRESS to send me a replacement
I: How will you get your office to send you cash?
Me: Because they have an office downtown, I'll just walk in
I: But you said you were just here for a meeting, why does your company have an office here
I mean WTF am I meant to answer to that thread of "questioning" from Sherlock ruddy Holmes.
I like the US but US immigration is by far the worst in the world and destroys all enjoyment about arriving in the country.
The A380 is too big and heavy for the vast majority of runways in the world.
Too "Heavy" is an unusual problem for a concrete runway
What you mean is that runways are too short for the A380, but of course it can take off and land in the same space as a 747, the only adaptations for the A380 are to the terminal buildings to handle the double decker. This isn't an issue for Air Force One as the president just walks down a set of stairs that are rolled up to the plane.
There are no technical challenges for AF1 being an A380 that wouldn't apply to the 747.
I'm assuming therefore that you wouldn't be in favour of the "right to defend yourself" as it applies to physical assault. After all if someone tries to rob you and you smash them over the head/shoot them/batter them with a baseball bat then you are becoming a criminal because if you did that normally then it would be unethical/immoral/etc
Get down off your high-horse and stop seeing piracy as a right. Its theft and in the same way as if you break into my house I have the right to defend myself then why don't I have the right to defend myself when you steal my software?
One thing that I've been switching to recently has been backing up not just the disk or data but creating a full virtual machine backup of the server. Space wise this can be a big hit so incremental data backups are done daily, with a full VM hit once a month alongside the full data dump. Now I'm shifting to doing a daily VM in addition which gives me the last close of play.
The reason for this is restore time, if it takes a few days to restore then its a right pain (or for some companies fatal) but a VM restore I can fire up on temporary kit in a matter of an hour or less and give a downgraded service while we patch up the full servers.
1) The iPhone is the biggest selling single phone on the market, hell they've a 1/3 of the whole market with one device
2) The iPod is the biggest selling digital music player by a mile
3) iTunes is one of the easiest to use ways of managing your digital music collection
So will the vast majority of people give any sort of hoot about DRM when all they can see is their ability to share the music between their PCs and their digital music player? No they will not.
All this will do is demonstrate how pointless the actual demonstration is, thus meaning that Apple will be less likely to be concerned.
For most people the question isn't DRM-free its "playable on my iPod".
From the numbers in the summary, a fully-charged one of these would supply enough energy to propel a 3300lbs (1500kg) car from 0 to 1100mph (500m/s)
Ahhh you must be from the Theoretical Physics Department, over here in Engineering we have wind resistance, friction and efficiency to worry about.
Since when couldn't Gasoline be used in Cars? Isn't the whole principle of it to make it explode to drive the pistons? Now its good that this thing allegedly won't explode while being charged but with all technologies its about minimising risks through sensible practice rather than their complete elimination.
For instance I'd be willing to bet that applying 10MV at 10MA across this thing would cause some pretty funky changes that would look like an explosion.
Personally I'd like to see some sort of Darwin device in the next generation of cars, "cannot explode unless user should be removed from the human race".
This isn't about transparent government v security. Security through Obscurity is the well known worst approach to security that you can have, because if anyone ever does get that information (hell bribing a sys admin can't be that hard if you really want the info) then your have no security.
Its a bogus claim and a bogus judgement. If they were claiming that it shouldn't be released because editing Wikipedia isn't actually a political thing anyway then I could see a reason to toss it out. But the risk of hackers "targetting" bits of the network is just plain bogus, the implication is that these IP addresses are therefore in some secure part of the (ARKANSAS!) government and those IP addresses have already been released. What is being asked is a map back from a known IP address to its source. Claiming that knowing the physical source would some how make security worse is like saying that "Sure you have the keys, you know where the front door is and you can get in.... but I'm not telling you the NAME of the house".
Having the IP address is like having 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and the keys to the door but the government not telling you that it is called the "Whitehouse" for security reasons.
Who hear who codes in C or C++ hasn't had a similar bug in their own code from time to time
What are these bugs of which you speak? Sometimes I add problems for the testers to find, but that is done on purpose, its not my fault if they aren't smart enough.
Oh and I've debugged your english for you
Who here
Unless that was irony.
Now the serious bit. I used to work in safety critical software, we designed, tested added redundancy and used languages (e.g. Ada) which don't have overflow problems. This isn't a performance thing (we had to be high performance as well) its about choosing quality and security from the first day.
The biggest reason of all is interop. A piece of Java code that runs in 32 bit mode successfully will wrap around and work exactly the same on the 64 bit platform. Perl will work differently. if a piece of Java calls a piece of identical Java and one is on 32 bit and the other 64 bit then they will work properly, Perl will behave erratically.
Basically its the difference between a language that has been designed for longevity (Java) and one that just defaults to what ever is around (Perl).
Defaulting to what the processor has is the opposite of future proofing as it ensures that your current code WON'T WORK PROPERLY IN THE FUTURE. Sorry to shout but it really is quite important. The Java code will work the same on 32 bit and 64 bit versions while the Perl will work differently, thus it will not be future proof.
To really future proof your code what you need to do is plan for those things and assign your file size to be a long and guess what Java returns a long.
Perl and Design go together in the same way as Illinois and Probity.
Errr I'm taking a massive shot in the dark here but I'm guessing that the motivation would be
CONCERN ABOUT THE MASSIVE SUBVERSION OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND THE CONSTITUTION
I mean I know its a crazy mad sort of idea that someone might be motivated by decency and the desire for what is right rather than some political ideology. When George W. Bush and Dick Cheney talk about the principles of American freedom... well that is what this man has stood up to defend.
How sad that its the defender of freedom who is being shafted, while those who look to subvert the constitution are getting away scot free.