Clicking through the link to a server there to stay, Eating all the bandwidth up, and laughing all the way. There will be no more response to http requests, The slashdot crowd has once again done the server bandwidth test!
Slashdot hits, slashdot hits, slashdot all around, Oh what fun is it to melt a server to the ground! Slashdot hits, slashdot hits, slashdot all around, Oh what fun is it to melt a server to the ground!
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I'm dreaming of a big bandwidth, That can resist the slashdot crowd. May your days be merry and bright, And may all your servers survive tonight.
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Oh the slashdot effect is frightful, But the story is so delightful, And since we have the link to go: Down it go, down it go, down it go!
It doesn't show signs of stopping And I've bought some corn for popping The bandwidth is turned way down low Down it go, down it go, down it go!
When we finally kiss goodnight To the server out in the click-storm, The server will no more be allright, But at least it will really be warm.
The server is slowly dying, And my dear, it's access-denying, But as long, as we love clicking so, Down it go, down it go, down it go!
Well, the NYC inhabitants will not move suddenly, but the climate change will, measured in human time scales, not be that sudden either (don't believe what you see in hollywood films!). I guess there will be a small percentage which moves out as soon as it is only a few degrees colder (not so much due to fear of the climate change, but just because they don't like the weather anymore, and can afford to move somewhere else). Then as it gets colder, some other people might move out because they cannot afford the heating anymore (those are probably out of job, so as soon as moving is cheaper than staying, they'll move). As it gets even colder, also some average people will start moving away. Initially it will be few, but everyone moving away makes the infrastructure a little bit weaker, initially only unnoticably, but in the end, the combination of increased heating cost, less infrastructure and worse weather will cause an exponentially increasing number of people to move away from NYC. Not in a sort of flight, but just as a growing number of normal move-aways. Of course there will be also those who won't move away (after all, there are people living in colder zones due to their own decision), and possibly there will be some new people coming from regions more in the north.
So there will not be anything like a panic, unorganized flight, not will there be any organized city evacuation. It will be just normal migration in unusually high numbers and with an unusual southwards bias.
Yes, the MS drivers are clearly superior: Besides the Pain interface, which works quite effective, they also support the interfaces Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
I cant speak for the rest of the EU, but here in the UK, it is illegal to encrypt personal communications over radio links or the telephone, except using devices that the government can crak (and that needs a licnece so they know they can crack it).
And that includes messages encrypted using codes like "Mission completed" means "I have sold my old Ford and bought a BMW instead".
Does it also include using codes like "Sorry, I'd really like to come to your party, but I don't have the time." for "Your parties are that boring that I'm using every excuse to not go there."?
You know, the suicide terrorists believe they would go directly to paradise after doing their attack. Now, if the GPS gets shut down, they may fear not to find the way to paradise, and therefore restrain from doing the attack.
What we need is a global reset. Anyone found the switch yet?
Yes. It's the trigger of the atomic arsenale. Doesn't matter of which country, in any case it will likely cause total destruction of humans (and most of the other life on earth) and give evolution a second chance to produce something reasonable.
What if the terrorists just tell the US they'll do an attack shortly at a given place, without actually planning to do so? And then laugh at the damage the US is doing to themselves by shutting down GPS in that area?
Even if the premises were correct (i.e. no undetected bugs, and all found bugs fixed), your conclusion is wrong: You can introduce new bugs when fixing old ones.
Simple example: Say you failed to detect a negative value where there are none allowed:
int foo(int x)/* x must not be negative */ {
code_that_crashes_for_x_lt_0(x);
more_code(x);
return something; }
Well, 5 guys can just check 5 million lines of code. It will just take them much more than 4 years.
Let's calculate: The average life time of a man is about 80 years. Let's assume you can start proofreading with 20, then you have 60 years, or 21900 days where you can look for bugs. Now 5 persons for 5 million lines of code means 1 million for each. Divided by 21900 days, this gives less than 46 lines of code per day, assuming an 8h work day this makes close to 6 lines per hour. Sounds doable. The problem is, noone will do proofreading every day for his whole life, nor would anyone want to wait that long for the proofread.
So, yes, in theory they can proofread 5 million lines of code, but in practise they won't.
Actually it can even be a bug if the program does correctly perform some sensible operation, which just is not the operation the user expects. For example, if copy under DOS without being given any option just overwrites a file without asking, it's a bug. If cp under Unix does the same, it's the correct behaviour, asking by default would be the buggy behaviour in that case.
Maybe they are building cool Linux clusters but they can't be that smart. They have their mail addresses just sitting here on the site for spammers to harvest!
They are running a secret project about the use of supercomputers to analyze spam.:-)
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Are you actually Roland Piquepaille? If so, that's a really neat trick to move traffic to that site. If not, then he may be thankful for your comment, after all:-)
Wait until supercomuters become so complex that we need supercomputers to design the supercomputers which we need to understand the output of the supercomputer. Problem is, to understand the supercomputer-designing supercomputer's output we need a supercomputer to be designed by a supercomputer... ok, there's a way out: Let the supercomputer build the supercomputer it designed. Ok, now we just need another supercomputer to test the supercomputer the supercomputer built us to interpret the output of the supercomputer...
But maybe someone could translate 'Link 2'?... it's only 5 (five) lines.
Without warranty on correctness:
Corrigendum to the draft of the rationale of the council
Subject: Common position of the council concerning the enactment of a guideline of the Eurropean parliament and the council about the patentability of computer-implemented inventions
Number 17 (page 5) gets the following version:
"Paragraph 2 was added to reveal that the range of protection of a patented invention may under certain circumstances and under exactly defined conditions also cover a computer program, being either the program alone or a program on a data medium. In the view of the council, this way the guideline follows the usual parctise of both the European patent office and the member states."
Slashdot Mirror
"Today 20 babies were put back into the uterus of their mother." :-)
Because it dicovered that desktop multiplication is far more effective in producing high numbers of desktops.
The second sentence doesn't imply the first. It's as if you said: "There is no music. There are only density waves in the air."
Clicking through the link to a server there to stay,
Eating all the bandwidth up, and laughing all the way.
There will be no more response to http requests,
The slashdot crowd has once again done the server bandwidth test!
Slashdot hits, slashdot hits, slashdot all around,
Oh what fun is it to melt a server to the ground!
Slashdot hits, slashdot hits, slashdot all around,
Oh what fun is it to melt a server to the ground!
---
I'm dreaming of a big bandwidth,
That can resist the slashdot crowd.
May your days be merry and bright,
And may all your servers survive tonight.
---
Oh the slashdot effect is frightful,
But the story is so delightful,
And since we have the link to go:
Down it go, down it go, down it go!
It doesn't show signs of stopping
And I've bought some corn for popping
The bandwidth is turned way down low
Down it go, down it go, down it go!
When we finally kiss goodnight
To the server out in the click-storm,
The server will no more be allright,
But at least it will really be warm.
The server is slowly dying,
And my dear, it's access-denying,
But as long, as we love clicking so,
Down it go, down it go, down it go!
Well, the problem could be: "How do I get more chrismas music to annoy^Wenjoy customers in my shop without having to pay money to the RIAA?"
:-)
Or maybe the problem is: "How do I get a story on slashdot?"
Well, the NYC inhabitants will not move suddenly, but the climate change will, measured in human time scales, not be that sudden either (don't believe what you see in hollywood films!). I guess there will be a small percentage which moves out as soon as it is only a few degrees colder (not so much due to fear of the climate change, but just because they don't like the weather anymore, and can afford to move somewhere else). Then as it gets colder, some other people might move out because they cannot afford the heating anymore (those are probably out of job, so as soon as moving is cheaper than staying, they'll move). As it gets even colder, also some average people will start moving away. Initially it will be few, but everyone moving away makes the infrastructure a little bit weaker, initially only unnoticably, but in the end, the combination of increased heating cost, less infrastructure and worse weather will cause an exponentially increasing number of people to move away from NYC. Not in a sort of flight, but just as a growing number of normal move-aways. Of course there will be also those who won't move away (after all, there are people living in colder zones due to their own decision), and possibly there will be some new people coming from regions more in the north.
So there will not be anything like a panic, unorganized flight, not will there be any organized city evacuation. It will be just normal migration in unusually high numbers and with an unusual southwards bias.
Yes, the MS drivers are clearly superior: Besides the Pain interface, which works quite effective, they also support the interfaces Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
Does it also include using codes like "Sorry, I'd really like to come to your party, but I don't have the time." for "Your parties are that boring that I'm using every excuse to not go there."?
Such as the US blocking the EU's Galilei service?
You know, the suicide terrorists believe they would go directly to paradise after doing their attack. Now, if the GPS gets shut down, they may fear not to find the way to paradise, and therefore restrain from doing the attack.
Yes. It's the trigger of the atomic arsenale. Doesn't matter of which country, in any case it will likely cause total destruction of humans (and most of the other life on earth) and give evolution a second chance to produce something reasonable.
Of course I'd prefer if noone does the reset
I thought to make the people more afraid was the goal of the terrorists?
What if the terrorists just tell the US they'll do an attack shortly at a given place, without actually planning to do so? And then laugh at the damage the US is doing to themselves by shutting down GPS in that area?
Since you cannot see what he had between the < and > you don't know if his code had a bug there.
Simple example: Say you failed to detect a negative value where there are none allowed:Now you find this bug and fix it:You bug is fixed (no crash for negative values). But you introduced a new one (the function flags an error if x is 0, despite x being allowed).
Well, 5 guys can just check 5 million lines of code. It will just take them much more than 4 years.
Let's calculate: The average life time of a man is about 80 years. Let's assume you can start proofreading with 20, then you have 60 years, or 21900 days where you can look for bugs. Now 5 persons for 5 million lines of code means 1 million for each. Divided by 21900 days, this gives less than 46 lines of code per day, assuming an 8h work day this makes close to 6 lines per hour. Sounds doable. The problem is, noone will do proofreading every day for his whole life, nor would anyone want to wait that long for the proofread.
So, yes, in theory they can proofread 5 million lines of code, but in practise they won't.
Actually it can even be a bug if the program does correctly perform some sensible operation, which just is not the operation the user expects.
For example, if copy under DOS without being given any option just overwrites a file without asking, it's a bug. If cp under Unix does the same, it's the correct behaviour, asking by default would be the buggy behaviour in that case.
This may explain the Windows crashes. "Sorry Dave, I cannot let you do that."
Sorry, you got that wrong. It's MICROS~1. Only 8 characters including the ~1.
Given that nowadays Linux gets ported to about everything, at some time we'll certainly see Linux for CLR, too.
:-)
BTW, has anyone already ported Linux to Emacs Lisp?
Lisp machine.
They are running a secret project about the use of supercomputers to analyze spam.
Are you actually Roland Piquepaille? If so, that's a really neat trick to move traffic to that site. If not, then he may be thankful for your comment, after all
Wait until supercomuters become so complex that we need supercomputers to design the supercomputers which we need to understand the output of the supercomputer. Problem is, to understand the supercomputer-designing supercomputer's output we need a supercomputer to be designed by a supercomputer ... ok, there's a way out: Let the supercomputer build the supercomputer it designed. ...
Ok, now we just need another supercomputer to test the supercomputer the supercomputer built us to interpret the output of the supercomputer
Without warranty on correctness:
Corrigendum to the draft of the rationale of the council
Subject: Common position of the council concerning the enactment of a guideline of the Eurropean parliament and the council about the patentability of computer-implemented inventions
Number 17 (page 5) gets the following version:
"Paragraph 2 was added to reveal that the range of protection of a patented invention may under certain circumstances and under exactly defined conditions also cover a computer program, being either the program alone or a program on a data medium. In the view of the council, this way the guideline follows the usual parctise of both the European patent office and the member states."