Near the top of the article, a security expert from Australia says:
"So what about just the SYN flood? Well, even with patches, to successfully conduct a SYN flood you would tend to chew up available bandwidth anyway, which we aren't seeing. So I have quite strong doubts about the accuracy of this information. He also claims that ftp.sco.com should be unavailable if the DoS attack were real.
However, near the bottom of the article, another user writes in:
"There are many types of DoS and DDoS attacks, each type targeting a different resource. Blake Stowell is confusing a SYN flood (an attack against the TCP port resource on a host) with a brute-force DDoS against a bandwidth resource. This simply demonstrates that BS is not a techie and that the difference has not been explained to him.
"Dear Mr. BS: . . . A SYN-flood attack probably consumes 1 Kbps or less. Everybody else in the known universe can communicate with all of your externally-visible machines except www.sco.com. If the (alleged) attack on www.sco.com has affected any other machines, your network is very poorly administered. I suggest you avail yourself of the vast array of of volunteer expertise that is ready to help any user of a Linux system.
This suggest to me that SCO didn't explain correctly the type of attack it's under, especially in saying 'all bandwidth was consumed' when perhaps they meant 'all server resources were consumed'
However, I make no statements whether the DoS attack is real or fabricated- I see either as likely.
This is a week old news item. The discussion on the security forum of Dslreports brought up some good points. (See this post.)
What happens if the user hoses a system using one of the tools? HijackThis will allow you to 'fix' items that shouldn't be fixed. Spybot can do the same. In my opinion, a spyware killer in a novice's hands can be as damaging as some spyware.
Dell is also covering themselves against lawsuits, as the article pointed out. This should ultimately keep the prices down anyway. Come on folks- Dell support has ceased to be good. You buy a dell for a good price on a great computer, and then you hit up your neighborhood geek if you mess something up.
On a different topic, I wonder just what preinstalled spyware the article was talking about?
the cartridges would be inserted flat into the front of the Panther like a front-load VHS tape recorder
that's quite an odd analogy to use, since there is one in the video game industry that works better- the NES. It didn't work nearly as well as the top loading system did, mostly because you had to push the cartrige down after loading it, and after a while the little lock holding it down would wear out. It sometimes takes 10 or so tries to load NES games when i try to play them now. (Of course, it wasn't meant to last 15 years, i know)
It's too bad
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AFAIK, even though firewire is a host less protocol you can't transfer files from one iPod to the next.
However, Creative jukeboxes can, and when the drab PC community catches up I wonder if people will not only listen to other people's music, but share it too- like a p2p network in flesh-space!
Doing a napkin style calculation, and assuming normal guitar strings vibrate at 440 hz (which they do), and assuming the silicon has similar properties as the bronze (which it probably doesn't)
f*lambda = v (for waves)
a guitar is about 1.5m long, and the lowest standing wave has wavelength 2*l, or 3m, thus the velocity of the guitar string is about 1320 meters/sec. Assuming the silicon vibrates as the same speed, lambda is now 20 microns, so the frequency is about 60 MHz!
Maybe Superman's dog can hear that guitar play, but I sure can't.
(Maybe we can use it as the clock of some sort of embedded CPU- my 486 DX2 was about 60MHZ)
Okay, except for maybe the battery life point, the other four points are:
2,3,4,5)Because it doesn't do something it's not designed to do.
Btw: If you won't buy an iPod because it's expensive, you obvious aren't in the target market for the device. It's actually reasonably priced in it's segment.
It's like saying 5 reasons not to buy a house: 1)It's expensive 2)You can't take it to the grocery store... etc.
PC Mag has been giving good reviews to apple products for a long time. Here is a link to a review of 10.1 (4/5 stars).
I also don't understand the surprise. What would a PC user find wrong with a mac? It's similar enough to windows to be usuable. I don't use apples because I don't like the lack of 3rd party hardware and the more limited upgradability. There is nothing wrong with the OS.
afaik, the research isn't on weapons development, but explosions research and weapons defense.(The more you know about the explosion the easier it is to design nuclear resistant bunkers and the like)
For those of you wondering why it takes 1 pflop to do such a simulation consider how much computing power it would take to follow each gas molecule in the explosion as it expands. They won't be able to get even remotely close to that precise, obviously. (6x10^23 molecules in 22 liters at room temp, so figure about 10^25 molecules to follow around)
Also, keep in mind that 70% of academic research dollars are defense related. (whether you like that or not, sadly)
What you say is true for me too. However, I was forced to learn basic nutrition 6 years in a row as we had both phy ed and health classes. (6 years starting in fifth grade)
As much as I would love to follow the argument of the other posters that UCSD could stand for anything, and the author of the website could just re-write the acronym, it's pretty clear from this document [pdf file] (see page 2) that UCSD is a trademark owned by the Regents of the University of California.
Disclaimer: While I don't support either side really, I should mention I am a UC student (up here in Berkeley)
UC-Berkeley's Chemistry 1A classes also use this same thing. The device is fairly cheap, but has 10-15 response buttons on it.
On an aside, the classes are also webcast via real player, and many of the quizzes and homeworks are done via web based demos. It's a model for future wide-area classrooms, imho.(I took the class and found the model very sucessful)
You'll note that I didn't mention the word Microsoft in at all in my post. Sure you might assume since the majority of conspiracy theories come from Microsoft stories that I standing up for Microsoft, but then you'd be missing my point entirely.
While the firing was unecessary and I don't agreee with it in the slightest. (How can your participation be 'unauthorized'?), it's the editorial tagline that really irks me.
You, slashdot editor, member of the press, are actually encouraging and suggesting that false and misleading information be interpolated from a small number of facts. Sure, a healthy skepticism and more investigation is required to determine why he was fired but i think an editorial remark with a message consisting of:
"This isn't really big news, but if we pretend like all sorts of mysterious things are happening that we don't know about, it will be."
Those sorts of things happen on their own more than enough as is; encouraging it is just unecessary.
If the energy extracted doesn't come from the visible light spectrum, and the material doesn't interact with visible light, it will simply pass through unaffected. Seeing as how UV light has much more energy per photon than visible light, this seems likely.
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Near the top of the article, a security expert from Australia says:
"So what about just the SYN flood? Well, even with patches, to successfully conduct a SYN flood you would tend to chew up available bandwidth anyway, which we aren't seeing. So I have quite strong doubts about the accuracy of this information.
He also claims that ftp.sco.com should be unavailable if the DoS attack were real.
However, near the bottom of the article, another user writes in:
"There are many types of DoS and DDoS attacks, each type targeting a different resource. Blake Stowell is confusing a SYN flood (an attack against the TCP port resource on a host) with a brute-force DDoS against a bandwidth resource. This simply demonstrates that BS is not a techie and that the difference has not been explained to him.
"Dear Mr. BS: . . . A SYN-flood attack probably consumes 1 Kbps or less. Everybody else in the known universe can communicate with all of your externally-visible machines except www.sco.com. If the (alleged) attack on www.sco.com has affected any other machines, your network is very poorly administered. I suggest you avail yourself of the vast array of of volunteer expertise that is ready to help any user of a Linux system.
This suggest to me that SCO didn't explain correctly the type of attack it's under, especially in saying 'all bandwidth was consumed' when perhaps they meant 'all server resources were consumed'
However, I make no statements whether the DoS attack is real or fabricated- I see either as likely.
Well, now 500k slashdot users are attempting to connect to the ftp to see if groklaw is correct.
You are assuming that someone must be a supporter of something they are knowledgable about.
Just because someone knows *nix very well does not mean they have a shred of affinity toward it.
By the same token, how many people here know Windows?
This is a week old news item. The discussion on the security forum of Dslreports brought up some good points. (See this post.)
What happens if the user hoses a system using one of the tools? HijackThis will allow you to 'fix' items that shouldn't be fixed. Spybot can do the same. In my opinion, a spyware killer in a novice's hands can be as damaging as some spyware.
Dell is also covering themselves against lawsuits, as the article pointed out. This should ultimately keep the prices down anyway. Come on folks- Dell support has ceased to be good. You buy a dell for a good price on a great computer, and then you hit up your neighborhood geek if you mess something up.
On a different topic, I wonder just what preinstalled spyware the article was talking about?
the cartridges would be inserted flat into the front of the Panther like a front-load VHS tape recorder
that's quite an odd analogy to use, since there is one in the video game industry that works better- the NES. It didn't work nearly as well as the top loading system did, mostly because you had to push the cartrige down after loading it, and after a while the little lock holding it down would wear out. It sometimes takes 10 or so tries to load NES games when i try to play them now. (Of course, it wasn't meant to last 15 years, i know)
AFAIK, even though firewire is a host less protocol you can't transfer files from one iPod to the next.
However, Creative jukeboxes can, and when the drab PC community catches up I wonder if people will not only listen to other people's music, but share it too- like a p2p network in flesh-space!
While the bully was most likely an asshole, I find your seemingly proud attitude toward the permanant harm of someone else unnerving...
At first I was like- No we aren't- the college of music doesn't support that at all... then- ohhh- berklee not berkeley
Good to hear my homophonic sister school is doing something progressive
Doing a napkin style calculation, and assuming normal guitar strings vibrate at 440 hz (which they do), and assuming the silicon has similar properties as the bronze (which it probably doesn't)
f*lambda = v (for waves)
a guitar is about 1.5m long, and the lowest standing wave has wavelength 2*l, or 3m, thus the velocity of the guitar string is about 1320 meters/sec. Assuming the silicon vibrates as the same speed, lambda is now 20 microns, so the frequency is about 60 MHz!
Maybe Superman's dog can hear that guitar play, but I sure can't.
(Maybe we can use it as the clock of some sort of embedded CPU- my 486 DX2 was about 60MHZ)
Well, if you follow the news, ATi is making the XBox 2 video chipset.
I guess I'll be getting my graphics cards from S3
Okay, except for maybe the battery life point, the other four points are:
2,3,4,5)Because it doesn't do something it's not designed to do.
Btw: If you won't buy an iPod because it's expensive, you obvious aren't in the target market for the device. It's actually reasonably priced in it's segment.
It's like saying 5 reasons not to buy a house:
1)It's expensive
2)You can't take it to the grocery store... etc.
My theory: an alien astronaut has attached a jet to the spacecraft and is now stealing it for further study.
Sorry- I should have been more specific. I meant third-party cases and motherboards, and the like
The poster must not be a big reader of pc mag.
PC Mag has been giving good reviews to apple products for a long time. Here is a link to a review of 10.1 (4/5 stars).
I also don't understand the surprise. What would a PC user find wrong with a mac? It's similar enough to windows to be usuable. I don't use apples because I don't like the lack of 3rd party hardware and the more limited upgradability. There is nothing wrong with the OS.
afaik, the research isn't on weapons development, but explosions research and weapons defense.(The more you know about the explosion the easier it is to design nuclear resistant bunkers and the like)
For those of you wondering why it takes 1 pflop to do such a simulation consider how much computing power it would take to follow each gas molecule in the explosion as it expands. They won't be able to get even remotely close to that precise, obviously. (6x10^23 molecules in 22 liters at room temp, so figure about 10^25 molecules to follow around)
Also, keep in mind that 70% of academic research dollars are defense related. (whether you like that or not, sadly)
What you say is true for me too. However, I was forced to learn basic nutrition 6 years in a row as we had both phy ed and health classes. (6 years starting in fifth grade)
I thought this story was a dupe, but it turns out that this was what I was thinking of.
/. story about a huge flare in 1859 that knocked out communications across the northern hemisphere.
For those wondering, the link is a
As much as I would love to follow the argument of the other posters that UCSD could stand for anything, and the author of the website could just re-write the acronym, it's pretty clear from this document [pdf file] (see page 2) that UCSD is a trademark owned by the Regents of the University of California.
Disclaimer: While I don't support either side really, I should mention I am a UC student (up here in Berkeley)
UC-Berkeley's Chemistry 1A classes also use this same thing. The device is fairly cheap, but has 10-15 response buttons on it.
On an aside, the classes are also webcast via real player, and many of the quizzes and homeworks are done via web based demos. It's a model for future wide-area classrooms, imho.(I took the class and found the model very sucessful)
You'll note that I didn't mention the word Microsoft in at all in my post. Sure you might assume since the majority of conspiracy theories come from Microsoft stories that I standing up for Microsoft, but then you'd be missing my point entirely.
While the firing was unecessary and I don't agreee with it in the slightest. (How can your participation be 'unauthorized'?), it's the editorial tagline that really irks me.
You, slashdot editor, member of the press, are actually encouraging and suggesting that false and misleading information be interpolated from a small number of facts. Sure, a healthy skepticism and more investigation is required to determine why he was fired but i think an editorial remark with a message consisting of:
"This isn't really big news, but if we pretend like all sorts of mysterious things are happening that we don't know about, it will be."
Those sorts of things happen on their own more than enough as is; encouraging it is just unecessary.
Okay, so I can see and understand the effect wildcarding had on the domains, and why it's bad thing.
.net and .com domains? If not, who can?
I'm also familar with the basic structure of the DNS network. However, I'm not familar with the regulatory system.
Can someone explain who regulates who gets to control what domains? Can ICANN revoke Verisign's control of the
No...
after the second half life, only 1/4 of the original sample is left, so it should logicalle be called Quarter-life
I don't- I get this bounced back.
If the energy extracted doesn't come from the visible light spectrum, and the material doesn't interact with visible light, it will simply pass through unaffected. Seeing as how UV light has much more energy per photon than visible light, this seems likely.