I think you missed the point. AIF *saves* cells, it doesn't kill them. That is why it is possibly being regarded as a 'fountain of youth' drug.
If it is applied to cells that a virus would attack, then the cells will not die, so the virus will be unable to reproduce, and therefore will die out.
It is nice to have somebody actually explain what is going on, and describe how an attack would work tho. For years, nmap has spat out this 'sequence prediction', 'difficulty', and an accompanying description,and nobody had any idea what it was, and the nmap docs never mentioned it either, but it took up most of nmap's output so it looked pretty important.
Now we know that it is merely these 'packet IDs'. I'm sure many people have pointed out that guessing these is not really much of an attack, as spoofing packets is nothing new, and people use encryption for anything important -- and encrypted data is not vulnerable to this attack.
Umm.. dunno if I've missed something here, but there isn't anybody living on mars ?
so the other end of this link isn't going to be all that interesting to talk to
Every ship and probe that goes out there has its own transmitter to Earth, so the only difference that this 'link' has is that it will use tcp/ip instead of whatever other protocol they were using.
And some script kiddie will DDoS it 24/7 just so that they can say they ddossed mars..
sounds like a rather silly idea, all things considered
Some filesystems that have appeared recently are databases, with SQL for searching etc., rather than the tree hierarchy that was first started by Multics. Oracle's iFS is probably the most notable.
It's surprising that nobody had this idea 10 years ago.
ufs and ext2fs sure aren't, and I believe they constitute the filesystem on most Unix boxen.
Using 'From:' to indicate the sender seems quite natural; it's an easy thing to search for, and it means you can read the mail as a textfile if you want, and don't even have to use a mail client.
Interesting you say that.. I use Outlook Express (5.5) and its IMAP support is a real dog. (On a modem connection, this is, not some fat pipe). When you click 'Send', the message stays there until it's contacted the server and moved it to 'Outbox', so you think it hasn't noticed your click, and you click again, and if the connection is down then what happens to it? and if you don't sync every one of your folders each time you miss messages and get messages in the wrong place. It tkaes upwards of a minute to check mail on an IMAP server, but about one second on POP. Ugh
This Java-like environment is a great idea. However, Sun wouldn't licence Microsoft to develop it, so Microsoft made their own. The C# language is Java with a few keywords changed.
Anyone else got some glass they need help seeing through?
.NET may also have the purpose, as many people have pointed out, of enabling MS to continue as before, despite satisfying the letter of the law of Judge Jackson's breakup proposal. (see here)
As an aside, I note with interest that the fat banner at the top of Slashdot main page, took me to a blurb for a gaming mouse, which only supports Win95 and Win98 (and not Linux or WinNT/2k). I guess the target audience is changing?
Totally agree. I mean, Frodo Baggins with an evil overlord's magic ring, is just your average run-of-the-mill realistic situation. Look how unpopular it is
It's well-known that CmdrFucko and the rest don't want to admit that a "big bad corporate", who charge thousands for their operating systems, might actually believe in open source.
ZX81 (aka Timex 1000) also had arbitrary keys, BASIC, and could have floppy disks attached. I'm quite sure that people could have written shareware for it too, if they wanted.
AmigaBASIC is the most horrible thing to program in, have you ever tried it? Ghastly.
This is as fallacious as the idea that I could have a long rigid rod from here to Alpha Centauri, and communicate with it in realtime by pushing and pulling on the rod.
(Hmm, how did i come to talk about rigid rods and fallacio in one sentence..)
You forgot to allow for relativistic time-dilation.
The currents here are particles moving through niobium, not light. They have a momentum, and thus are subject to special relativity (not to mention general relativity).
I'm late for work, so I don't have time to do any calculations, but the gist of it is that _as far as the particles are concerned_ they can travel much further than.4mm in one cycle.
Umm did you read the article
The materials in question are not 'optical', and they operate at a temperature of 5K (that's -268 C, or -450 F). At current technologies, that's a lot larger and more expensive than a heatsink, and I don't ever see it winning the size race vs. heatsinks.
What is doc.ic.ac.uk anyway? I mention this because seeing it triggers a bit of nostalgia; I remember when the old school first got PCs, and all us nerds sat in the library at lunchtime using gopher and doing ftp-by-email and joining listservs because we weren't allowed to use mosaic, and doc.ic.ac.uk came up a lot and we thought it was cool because it was lots of short words and it sounded aesthetically pleasing.
The chess table is much more interesting. Thompson was the first guy to solve various piece endings, by using his mainframe systems, and answer once and for all questions of who wins what endings. The page in the story in fact gives some of those results. Hurrah!
I think the most amusing aspect of this story is the number of lamers that have replied "The correct url is www.rendell.co.uk/....".
It's amazing how people (in all aspects of life) assume that someone else is wrong, just because someone else's suggestion does not match the person's preconceived notion of what they should be hearing -- especially without even bothering to check of they are right or not.
rendell.uk.co contains the correct page (as evinced by Googol, even though it is currently slashdotted). "rendell.co.uk" has no nameserver lookup, and "www.rendell.co.uk" is a completely unrelated site and does not mention Turing machines at all.
The domain "rendell.uk.co" is registered to Paul Rendell, as of 10 July 2000, and the domain "rendell.co.uk" to Webhound Ltd., as of 16 Sep 1999.
To use a cliche, "People hear what they want to hear"
Slashdot Mirror
apt-get install dselect-docs
More remarkable than the stories in this collection, is its title :) I have only read the first, maybe I should go and read the rest.
I think you missed the point. AIF *saves* cells, it doesn't kill them. That is why it is possibly being regarded as a 'fountain of youth' drug.
If it is applied to cells that a virus would attack, then the cells will not die, so the virus will be unable to reproduce, and therefore will die out.
It is nice to have somebody actually explain what is going on, and describe how an attack would work tho. For years, nmap has spat out this 'sequence prediction', 'difficulty', and an accompanying description,and nobody had any idea what it was, and the nmap docs never mentioned it either, but it took up most of nmap's output so it looked pretty important.
Now we know that it is merely these 'packet IDs'. I'm sure many people have pointed out that guessing these is not really much of an attack, as spoofing packets is nothing new, and people use encryption for anything important -- and encrypted data is not vulnerable to this attack.
Umm .. dunno if I've missed something here, but there isn't anybody living on mars ?
so the other end of this link isn't going to be all that interesting to talk to
Every ship and probe that goes out there has its own transmitter to Earth, so the only difference that this 'link' has is that it will use tcp/ip instead of whatever other protocol they were using.
And some script kiddie will DDoS it 24/7 just so that they can say they ddossed mars..
sounds like a rather silly idea, all things considered
>My A500 is STLL faster than a 486Dx66
.. let's see Doom2 on your A500 and we'll compare it to my 486.
Oh rubbish
Unless this is some kind of joke that I've missed?
Some filesystems that have appeared recently are databases, with SQL for searching etc., rather than the tree hierarchy that was first started by Multics. Oracle's iFS is probably the most notable.
It's surprising that nobody had this idea 10 years ago.
ufs and ext2fs sure aren't, and I believe they constitute the filesystem on most Unix boxen.
Using 'From:' to indicate the sender seems quite natural; it's an easy thing to search for, and it means you can read the mail as a textfile if you want, and don't even have to use a mail client.
Interesting you say that .. I use Outlook Express (5.5) and its IMAP support is a real dog. (On a modem connection, this is, not some fat pipe). When you click 'Send', the message stays there until it's contacted the server and moved it to 'Outbox', so you think it hasn't noticed your click, and you click again, and if the connection is down then what happens to it? and if you don't sync every one of your folders each time you miss messages and get messages in the wrong place. It tkaes upwards of a minute to check mail on an IMAP server, but about one second on POP. Ugh
This Java-like environment is a great idea. However, Sun wouldn't licence Microsoft to develop it, so Microsoft made their own. The C# language is Java with a few keywords changed.
Anyone else got some glass they need help seeing through?
As an aside, I note with interest that the fat banner at the top of Slashdot main page, took me to a blurb for a gaming mouse, which only supports Win95 and Win98 (and not Linux or WinNT/2k). I guess the target audience is changing?
Totally agree. I mean, Frodo Baggins with an evil overlord's magic ring, is just your average run-of-the-mill realistic situation. Look how unpopular it is
It's well-known that CmdrFucko and the rest don't want to admit that a "big bad corporate", who charge thousands for their operating systems, might actually believe in open source.
Well, this thing won't have transistors, according to the article.
:) )
(PS. Terse reply, will write more later, am late for work
If someone can't read the decimal point correctly on a calculator, I really don't think they will be able to get it right on a slide rule.
ZX81 (aka Timex 1000) also had arbitrary keys, BASIC, and could have floppy disks attached. I'm quite sure that people could have written shareware for it too, if they wanted.
AmigaBASIC is the most horrible thing to program in, have you ever tried it? Ghastly.
... Playstation ...
If you think Boogie Nights is porn, maybe you need to fire up your web browser.
This is as fallacious as the idea that I could have a long rigid rod from here to Alpha Centauri, and communicate with it in realtime by pushing and pulling on the rod.
(Hmm, how did i come to talk about rigid rods and fallacio in one sentence..)
You forgot to allow for relativistic time-dilation. .4mm in one cycle.
The currents here are particles moving through niobium, not light. They have a momentum, and thus are subject to special relativity (not to mention general relativity).
I'm late for work, so I don't have time to do any calculations, but the gist of it is that _as far as the particles are concerned_ they can travel much further than
Probably right about when you get a hardware RAID controller, not using software RAID
Umm did you read the article
The materials in question are not 'optical', and they operate at a temperature of 5K (that's -268 C, or -450 F). At current technologies, that's a lot larger and more expensive than a heatsink, and I don't ever see it winning the size race vs. heatsinks.
" By the fan's, for the fan's "
I wonder where the fans of punctuation will host their website then..
What is doc.ic.ac.uk anyway? I mention this because seeing it triggers a bit of nostalgia; I remember when the old school first got PCs, and all us nerds sat in the library at lunchtime using gopher and doing ftp-by-email and joining listservs because we weren't allowed to use mosaic, and doc.ic.ac.uk came up a lot and we thought it was cool because it was lots of short words and it sounded aesthetically pleasing.
The chess table is much more interesting. Thompson was the first guy to solve various piece endings, by using his mainframe systems, and answer once and for all questions of who wins what endings. The page in the story in fact gives some of those results. Hurrah!
It's amazing how people (in all aspects of life) assume that someone else is wrong, just because someone else's suggestion does not match the person's preconceived notion of what they should be hearing -- especially without even bothering to check of they are right or not.
rendell.uk.co contains the correct page (as evinced by Googol, even though it is currently slashdotted). "rendell.co.uk" has no nameserver lookup, and "www.rendell.co.uk" is a completely unrelated site and does not mention Turing machines at all.
The domain "rendell.uk.co" is registered to Paul Rendell, as of 10 July 2000, and the domain "rendell.co.uk" to Webhound Ltd., as of 16 Sep 1999.
To use a cliche, "People hear what they want to hear"