Rackspace has more than enough bandwidth to cover anything but the largest DDoS attacks. However, that doesn't mean that your individual rack's switch, your load balancers, your servers, or your services are designed to handle it. DDoS will pretty much just tickle a bit for Rackspace. It's going to kill your servers far before it kills their infrastructure.
Palin replied: "As for that VP talk all the time, I'll tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day? I'm used to being very productive and working real hard in an administration. We want to make sure that that VP slot would be a fruitful type of position, especially for Alaskans and for the things that we're trying to accomplish up here for the rest of the U.S., before I can even start addressing that question."
I'm not sure that she was expressing a lack of knowledge about what the Vice President does.
"Alaskans are being told wake up, you have to be less reliant on the federal government. So I'm saying, 'OK then let us be less reliant on you. Allow us to develop our resources. Let us prove to you that we can responsibly and safely do this.'"
Anyone checked to see if the XO has the horsepower for Armadillo Run? It's an additively fun game and is based on manipulating physics to accomplish goals.
I agree with the semi-serious argument that all anti-abortion advocates should have to sign up to adopt all the children that their cause prevents being aborted. I tend to side with the quite-serious argument that if people could not have abortions, they may abstain from sex more often or pursue another form of birth control. In this case, I think that abortion being easy, common, and cheap cause more pregnancies to happen. If abortion is a viable answer, why take personal responsibility for your sexual decisions?
And just because I believe that you shouldn't be able to terminate a fetus, doesn't mean I should have to adopt the results of you not keeping your penis to yourself. That's like me saying that if you're for abortion, you should have to sign up for a mailing list for pictures of dead fetuses. Neither argument is sane.
Trying to do things by making gestures in the air is a huge pain. Without tactile feedback, it's tiring and inaccurate. Umm, isn't that what a Wiimote does in it's usual configuration? Just because what you've used before sucks, doesn't mean that the concept cannot be done properly. I think Wii has pretty much proved that.
The government fails at maintaining OUR social security.
The government fails at keeping track of all OUR money.
The government fails at securing OUR borders.
The government fails at managing OUR tax dollars responsibly and builds bridges to nowhere.
What in the WORLD makes you think that the government would do a good job running a national Internet Service Provider? Frankly, they don't have the track record.
The issue is that Valve gets 2.5 times more revenue from each copy of HL2 sold on steam than from boxes on shelves. By circumventing the publisher, they can sell the game at a lower price and make more money. Just the sheer number of people who have pre-loaded HL2 probably scares Vivendi - it's one of the biggest game releases of all time, and it looks like the game creators might actually make more of the pie than the publisher is used to.
This is besides the point. The students shouldn't just lie down and take it when the University is trying to regulate a spectrum it has no rights to. I'm a Waterview resident, and I've already paid tuition, $50/mo for Comcast internet, for my wireless access card, and for my 802.11b access point, and I absolutely REFUSE to shell out more because it's easier.
I'm a Waterview resident, and they can pull the University's wirelss access from all the apartments for all I care - the article talks about WAPs connected to PRIVATE internet connections (Comcast, etc), which most students in Waterview get once they realize how unreliable and slow the University network is.
These are NOT university property.
http://www.utdallas.edu/utdgeneral/utdmaps/watervi ew.html
These are private WAPs connected to private internet connections running in the same airspace as Waterview's crappy and unreliable wireless internet. I'm paying $50 a month for private Comcast internet, plus the price of a wireless router, and they want to require me to shell out even more for a 802.11a router, forget it.
I live at Waterview Park apartments, and they are NOT owned by the university. There is a leasing deal between Waterview and the University, but Waterview Park actually owns the properties.
Yes Yes! I just signed up for the VIP service at allofmp3.com and it just plain blows away P2P or anything else. As far as I can tell, it's completely legal under Russian law (IANAL). If anyone knows any reason why someone in America shouldn't use this site, please let me know. Otherwise, check it out!
Sounds to me like something right of Minority Report. When the movie came out, I took it as something that probably wouldn't happen anywhere in the near future, but now it seems that you can punished for crimes that you may have committed just as harshly as if you'd committed them. The limits to the lunacity of our court system seems to have no limit....
I know that you're just joking, of course, but they actually are real. I live in Ft. Worth and have been on that subway many a time - it was really kind of a landmark in Downtown Fort Worth, seeing as how it is the only subway there. I remember using it to get from the parking lot to the mall for Christmas time stuff when I was a kid. It's sad to see such a cool object (for me) being retired... all the land it was on has been ripped up and prepared for the new Radio Shack Campus (which actually looks really cool). (...Tear...) Goodbye, childhood!
Yes, I admit that at first look this sounds like the dumbest of all decisions. However, take a look at history. In 1934, President Roosevelt appointed Joseph P. Kennedy (JFK's old man) as the first chairman of a new regulatory agency to tidy up the nation's stock market: the Securities and Exchange Commission. The most notorious stock market player ended up reforming the exchange with regulations that stopped his own actions. I hope that Kelly will be able to fill the privacy roll in the same kind of way.
The Dept. of Homeland Security has the power to really advance the fight against domestic terrorism, but it's going to need experts in the malicious activities it's trying to block in order to effectively (in this case) make sure the job is done right. Kudos to the Dept. for choosing an expert in the field of Privacy Compliance.
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Rackspace has more than enough bandwidth to cover anything but the largest DDoS attacks. However, that doesn't mean that your individual rack's switch, your load balancers, your servers, or your services are designed to handle it. DDoS will pretty much just tickle a bit for Rackspace. It's going to kill your servers far before it kills their infrastructure.
Can I please say from anyone with two shreds of compassion for their fellow humans...
Fuck.
You.
Some people do this on purpose.
XKCD #320
Palin replied: "As for that VP talk all the time, I'll tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day? I'm used to being very productive and working real hard in an administration. We want to make sure that that VP slot would be a fruitful type of position, especially for Alaskans and for the things that we're trying to accomplish up here for the rest of the U.S., before I can even start addressing that question."
I'm not sure that she was expressing a lack of knowledge about what the Vice President does.
Her state loves her because she helps Stevens bring in the federal pork.
O rly? End of the Bridge to Nowhere
Also...
"Alaskans are being told wake up, you have to be less reliant on the federal government. So I'm saying, 'OK then let us be less reliant on you. Allow us to develop our resources. Let us prove to you that we can responsibly and safely do this.'"
from Palin visits D.C., lobbies for Alaska issues
Except he wasn't even charged
Also note that she hasn't been convicted. Note the whole innocent-until-proven-guilty thing here.
I haven't, as of this posting, heard a single word out of Obama or any of his direct campaign advisors on McCain's VP pick.
Looks like that's changed now.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080829171140.5123i228&show_article=1
Anyone checked to see if the XO has the horsepower for Armadillo Run? It's an additively fun game and is based on manipulating physics to accomplish goals.
http://www.armadillorun.com/
And just because I believe that you shouldn't be able to terminate a fetus, doesn't mean I should have to adopt the results of you not keeping your penis to yourself. That's like me saying that if you're for abortion, you should have to sign up for a mailing list for pictures of dead fetuses. Neither argument is sane.
THIS was modded Flaimbait?
Nope, no liberal bias here on Slashdot. Nuh-uh.
Please.
The government fails at maintaining OUR social security. The government fails at keeping track of all OUR money. The government fails at securing OUR borders. The government fails at managing OUR tax dollars responsibly and builds bridges to nowhere. What in the WORLD makes you think that the government would do a good job running a national Internet Service Provider? Frankly, they don't have the track record.
The issue is that Valve gets 2.5 times more revenue from each copy of HL2 sold on steam than from boxes on shelves. By circumventing the publisher, they can sell the game at a lower price and make more money. Just the sheer number of people who have pre-loaded HL2 probably scares Vivendi - it's one of the biggest game releases of all time, and it looks like the game creators might actually make more of the pie than the publisher is used to.
This is besides the point. The students shouldn't just lie down and take it when the University is trying to regulate a spectrum it has no rights to. I'm a Waterview resident, and I've already paid tuition, $50/mo for Comcast internet, for my wireless access card, and for my 802.11b access point, and I absolutely REFUSE to shell out more because it's easier.
I'm a Waterview resident, and they can pull the University's wirelss access from all the apartments for all I care - the article talks about WAPs connected to PRIVATE internet connections (Comcast, etc), which most students in Waterview get once they realize how unreliable and slow the University network is.
These are NOT university property. http://www.utdallas.edu/utdgeneral/utdmaps/watervi ew.html
These are private WAPs connected to private internet connections running in the same airspace as Waterview's crappy and unreliable wireless internet. I'm paying $50 a month for private Comcast internet, plus the price of a wireless router, and they want to require me to shell out even more for a 802.11a router, forget it.
I live at Waterview Park apartments, and they are NOT owned by the university. There is a leasing deal between Waterview and the University, but Waterview Park actually owns the properties.
Yes Yes! I just signed up for the VIP service at allofmp3.com and it just plain blows away P2P or anything else. As far as I can tell, it's completely legal under Russian law (IANAL). If anyone knows any reason why someone in America shouldn't use this site, please let me know. Otherwise, check it out!
We've finally found it - the system with the ability to blow women's clothes off.
Yeah, you could have...just before this article went up!
Sounds to me like something right of Minority Report. When the movie came out, I took it as something that probably wouldn't happen anywhere in the near future, but now it seems that you can punished for crimes that you may have committed just as harshly as if you'd committed them. The limits to the lunacity of our court system seems to have no limit....
You know, when a page gets slashdotted, isn't it just coincidence when the only thing that will load is the banner ad!
My reply to your Southwest Airline flame can be summed up in two headlines...
"American Airlines' $1 billion loss increases pressure on CEO" -CNN
"Once again, Southwest Airlines posts a profit" -Houston Chronicle
The brown paint doesn't seem to be hurting business, now does it?
I know that you're just joking, of course, but they actually are real. I live in Ft. Worth and have been on that subway many a time - it was really kind of a landmark in Downtown Fort Worth, seeing as how it is the only subway there. I remember using it to get from the parking lot to the mall for Christmas time stuff when I was a kid. It's sad to see such a cool object (for me) being retired... all the land it was on has been ripped up and prepared for the new Radio Shack Campus (which actually looks really cool). (...Tear...) Goodbye, childhood!
Yes, I admit that at first look this sounds like the dumbest of all decisions. However, take a look at history. In 1934, President Roosevelt appointed Joseph P. Kennedy (JFK's old man) as the first chairman of a new regulatory agency to tidy up the nation's stock market: the Securities and Exchange Commission. The most notorious stock market player ended up reforming the exchange with regulations that stopped his own actions. I hope that Kelly will be able to fill the privacy roll in the same kind of way.
The Dept. of Homeland Security has the power to really advance the fight against domestic terrorism, but it's going to need experts in the malicious activities it's trying to block in order to effectively (in this case) make sure the job is done right. Kudos to the Dept. for choosing an expert in the field of Privacy Compliance.