As for inserting bogus information, the worth of information in Freenet is determined by the number of people who request it. Random data will only displace other data in Freenet if people actually request it
Doesn't that mean that a DOS attack that included both bogus insertion and bogus requests (possibly using something like the distributed DOS attacks seen recently) could make it impossible to find the attacked information?
Statisticians have said for ages that not all data follows the normal (a.k.a. gaussian) distribution. We even have names for the ways in which distributions differ from the normal. Skewness describes distributions where one tail is stretched out in one direction longer than the other like this, or this more extreme example.
Kurtosis describes the "thickness" of the tails in comparison to the height of the centre of the distribution. (i.e. this has more kurtosis than this.
So, with some distributions, the chance of rare events is greater than some others.
Secondly, in the financial times (not my usual choice of statistical literature) articles there seems little link between the "universal curve" stuff and the distribution other than the normal.
I think this is what should happen. I know its an inconvenience for people who like to get all there nerd news in one place, including news pieces that criticise linux, but I think the comment from the Andover News guy is so telling.
He says he was getting reasonable replies until the article hit slashdot.
I think we as slashdot readers need to take some responsibility for the kind of response that appearance on slashdot has.
Are other people getting this reply when they try to find a CD that they just entered? Is there a delay in the database processing the info that comes in?
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Love the sig line. I hate Zippy as well.
Try http://www.caida.org/tools/visualization/mapnet/. It does some cute java based maps.
Doesn't that mean that a DOS attack that included both bogus insertion and bogus requests (possibly using something like the distributed DOS attacks seen recently) could make it impossible to find the attacked information?
To stop squatters.
Victoria is on the east coast!
Oh, you meant the east coast of the USA. Seriously though, its great when "big names" make it out to Australia.
If you don't want to jump backwards and forwards, all the graphs are accessible from
this link
Statisticians have said for ages that not all data follows the normal (a.k.a. gaussian) distribution. We even have names for the ways in which distributions differ from the normal. Skewness describes distributions where one tail is stretched out in one direction longer than the other like this, or this more extreme example.
Kurtosis describes the "thickness" of the tails in comparison to the height of the centre of the distribution. (i.e. this has more kurtosis than this.
So, with some distributions, the chance of rare events is greater than some others.
Secondly, in the financial times (not my usual choice of statistical literature) articles there seems little link between the "universal curve" stuff and the distribution other than the normal.
I think this is what should happen. I know its an inconvenience for people who like to get all there nerd news in one place, including news pieces that criticise linux, but I think the comment from the Andover News guy is so telling.
He says he was getting reasonable replies until the article hit slashdot.
I think we as slashdot readers need to take some responsibility for the kind of response that appearance on slashdot has.
Matlab, for example, runs its licence checking software as a client-server thingy, so the licence server needs to get started from inittab.
/usr/lib)
Matlab's own install script coped fine with this on my debian box (after I fixed the libs I broke with careless sym-linking in
I agree about easy upgrades with debian. It's very impressive.
Are other people getting this reply when they try to find a CD that they just entered?
Is there a delay in the database processing the
info that comes in?