OK, I'm no expert at all, so what I say is as enligtened as what you do. You probably know more about it than me;P
I think the routers themselves, working as they do with such massive quantities of data, will really just be fairly meaty servers with a whole load of NICs, as opposed to the pissy wee 8-port box that home users have in their attic.
I'm pretty sure (though i like to think otherwise) that my network with it's off-the-shelf components and amateurish construction would not stand an hour of the beating the DNS servers got.
Besides which, would it even be possible to attack a hub, assuming it was as you say basically a passive bit of hardware; your average hub, i believe, is just a transparent component in most networks. Can they even be assigned IP addresses?
As plastics can now be made with properties from very good conductors, to semiconductors, to great insulators, and the semiconductive ones can already being made into luminescent display materials, wouldn't it be more sensible to make a storage/computational monitor out of these? That way, you could make the circuitry from plastic, make the substrate from plastic, make the pixels from plastic and make the whole ting flexible.
If noone has thought of this already, I get dibs on the royalties;-)
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Phase 2: Collect Clay Math Prize
Phase 3: Profit
Now *there's* a business model!
Is it just because it was a thorny problem, a bit of knowledge for the sake of knowledge?
Or is it just that the guy is now eligible for the Clay maths prize?
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Must go buy a lottery ticket, front page on /. here I come!
I think the routers themselves, working as they do with such massive quantities of data, will really just be fairly meaty servers with a whole load of NICs, as opposed to the pissy wee 8-port box that home users have in their attic.
I'm pretty sure (though i like to think otherwise) that my network with it's off-the-shelf components and amateurish construction would not stand an hour of the beating the DNS servers got.
Besides which, would it even be possible to attack a hub, assuming it was as you say basically a passive bit of hardware; your average hub, i believe, is just a transparent component in most networks. Can they even be assigned IP addresses?
My money's on the companies that make porn mags; they probably decided to take out the net for a day and thus gain record sales!
Bastards!!!
I suppose so, but all i really want is a palmtop i can roll up into a tube and hit people with ;P
As plastics can now be made with properties from very good conductors, to semiconductors, to great insulators, and the semiconductive ones can already being made into luminescent display materials, wouldn't it be more sensible to make a storage/computational monitor out of these? That way, you could make the circuitry from plastic, make the substrate from plastic, make the pixels from plastic and make the whole ting flexible. ;-)
If noone has thought of this already, I get dibs on the royalties
Yup, chicks dig RSI :)
What are the "mayonnaise" and "glue"? I find it easier to remeebr it thus: "Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto" :-P