What I want to know is whether this will apply to Americas Army, the game produced specifically for kids to get them interested in a career in the military? It is a First Person Shooter but you only ever get to shoot terrorists. Does that make it OK?
It may not be open source but Americas Army runs on modest hardware and is a free download. Some of the maps are quite complicated but some are fairly open so take no time to learn. There are also usually loads of empty servers so you can have a quick walk around to see which map you like the look of in peace before diving into combat.
The only downside is the training missions you have to perform once at the start but solutions to these can be found on the web. In particular utube has walkthroughs for the hardest training mission called Escape and Evade. With this in mind it might you a couple of hours to setup an account initially and download it but this is one off investment you will never have to repeat.
There are also maps you can dive straight into playing without setting up an account but I have never tried these as they have only appeared in more recent versions after I was hooked.
If you include all the industries we in the we just bailed out with state money maybe we are not too different.
We in the west will quite happily turn to state ownership when it suits us judging by the recent banking and auto bail outs.
The problem with our system is then when the good times roll again it will not be government that really benefits, it will be private shareholders. At least in the Chinese system of state ownership then the profits get absorbed by the government as well the losses.
This is something mentioned at the very end of the article you posted when he talks about the contracting agencies taking very nice profits for providing key federal staff. That article made very interesting reading by the way, thanks for the link.
I have absolutely no idea what anonymous coward crap post you are talking about as I have all AC's weighted at -5. If you got to your settings page on slashdot you should be able to figure out how to do this too. It is one of the most useful features of slashcode for me and a great many other slashdot users.
The moral of this is that if you want people to read your comments then you need to sign up and join the karma system like everyone else.
The problem with blocking his IP is that most people in europe have dynamic IP addresses so changing your IP is as simple as reconnecting to the net.
The only problem with your logic is that you assume that modern 3D graphics cards are just as good at 2d rendering as they are at 3D. Unfortunately this is not the case. Both ATI and NVidia concentrate on what gets them good reviews, and that is good 3d rendering for games. Quite frequently this is at the expense of 2D performance.
A modern high-end graphics card is optimised for its 3D pipelines, so I personally would try and use them whenever possible. Hopefully the driver does that all automatically but if it is true that you change the way windows renders stuff by disabling aero then you are probably not using your PC to its fullest. A better idea might be to keep Aero enabled but turn off the eye candy you don't like on a feature by feature basis.
Of course I still don't use vista and I dont have to support it at work so I have no idea how it works in the least.
So it only makes sense that errors in this estimation process are going to be revealed in the later half (i.e. the descent).
Partly, but there is another factor that comes to my mind as an experienced non-ice climber: Descending is actually harder then ascending.
While downclimbing your head is at the wrong end so you cannot fully see where you are going. You have to place each crampon in the ice blindly then try and shift your weight to it and see how it feels. This is damn hard work and extremely scary. When I am was leading outdoors in the Alps last year (on solid rock) I went up something that scared me shitless simply because downclimbing the bit I had just done was far more scary at the time. Even on rock you cannot see what you just put you foot on so feeling is everything.
Most climbers learn to trust their hands far more than their feet as you have more control over your hands. If my feet lose traction it is my arms that will do the recovering. Partly because snap loading my arms is less likely to fracture a bone and partly because it is easier to see something to grab as it flies past. On ice you smash your ice axe in to whatever looks solid and hope it holds long enough or slows you down enough to do the same with the other arm.
I may tear muscle fibre but this is a hell of a lot less painful than a compound spiral fracture of one my shin bones or major dislocation of my knee joint. Also, if I trash an arm totally I may manage to get off the mountain and then walk back to civilisation, this is much harder if I cannot even walk when I get to the bottom. Climbers routinely practice snap loading their arms by letting go then catching a feature a few feet below before a major expedition or tricky climb.
Lowering off using ropes is frequently out of the question since you probably do not have enough gear to leave an anchor point left on the mountain every 60 metres or so. To do this on everest would probably require carrying hundreds of icescrews but I cannot be bothered to work out an exact number since carrying 10 or 15 each is about your limit with all the other gear you need. You will leave some on the mountain, but you have to choose the places you use them on the descent very carefully. (On the ascent your second can collect them as he climbs the bit you have just lead)
Disclaimer: I have never seriously injured myself half way up a mountain. This is all theoretical and I hope it stays that way.
Ruby is not really a serious programming language to be used in mission critical projects. It is an excellent resource for teaching development best practice due to the patterns it enforces but this comes at a cost. That cost is inflexibility. It frequently restricts thing that are on the borderlines of acceptable practice but in certain very specific circumstances are the best way of achieving a given end.
The only immediate example I can think of in my lunch break is it rigorous enforcement of best practice in database design. The real world is not perfect, sometimes you have to write code that interfaces with truly awful database design to get at legacy data, in this instance forget Ruby. If you are going to have to avoid a platform for certain jobs why use it at all?
Don't get me wrong, I think everyone should learn Ruby in the same way that everyone should learn Pascal. Pascal on the other hand cannot hold a candle to C or C++ in terms of professional development projects due to the flexibility it offers.
Quite frequently in the real world commercial pressures force an interim solution that Ruby cannot hope to offer for the reasons above. You might say that it is better to perform a complete rewrite in these situations but sometimes this is simply not possible due to the number of man hours available for a particular project.
We looked at converting our system to Ruby a few years ago but we simply did not have the developers to perform a complete rewrite in the time available. We could not afford to put all paying work on hold for the 9 months it would have taken our entire development team. In the end we chose PHP as this have us the flexibility we needed while allowing us to migrate the most important parts first but still use the old code for the rarely used pages until we need to modify them. While having the two systems side by side would be possible it would not be practical to get Ruby to pull data from an archaic awful database design that the old required.
Now some people say that Ruby is still perfect for new systems that will never be effected by these factors. I always counter that you never know what is round the corner in business, that is why flexibility is key.
But at least IBM will provide OSS developers with the info they need to inter operate with Lotus. Do you see MS doing the same thing with regards to exchange?
The biggest problem with going anywhere near the legal line in these sorts of cases is not losing the case. The biggest problem is having to fight the case in the first place. It costs a fortune even if you win and is a permanent black mark on the managers record.
Quite often it is cheaper to pay the person suing you off rather than attempt to fight the case.
We're stuck with the same leadership over here for likely another 18 months or so.
Not just that, the just elected the Democrats, traditionally the more liberty friendly of their two parties. We currently have the Labour party in power, the only people we can elect who stand any chance of winning are our Conservative party who traditionally are the more right wing of our two parties.
That might work on some or most files, but there still is no replacement for Acrobat.
Why not? Foxit works treat for me. I have not yet found a PDF that it cannot open, even the encrypted ones I have been sent. It is also smaller and faster than the adobe software so runs better on old PC's like mine.
This is bang on. So what we need to do is figure out how to put that respect back. This is not something that can be forced on young people though, respect always has to be earned.
My personal suggestion is that a society that practices the same messages it preaches to children and tries to live by the same rules we set for kids is the way forward. Obviously there are exceptions to this, but they should be few and far between.
If we as a nation constantly try and bully the world into doing our bidding using military might to force our will on other how can we be surprised when our kids mimic that behaviour in the playground.
Our parents grew up in an era when many countries in the world united to fight off a bully of mammoth proportions. This idea of standing up to fight oppression instilled a level of respect instilled a great deal of respect for the governmental institutions that made it possible.
This is not saying that all social problems disappeared during the 2nd World War, but it is saying that more people were willing to stand up for things believed in at home as well as fighting abroad.
Funny, I wonder what would happen to their level of competence and the budget when that tax payer insurance had to cover lawsuits..
Nothing. We have exactly that system in the UK. The taxpayer might cover health service doctors as their sole employer if they are sued, but they have to deal with being barred from practising medicine ever again. If you train for 5-8 years to become a medical professional you do not want to screw up and have to find a new career. Especially when you include the fact that they invariably have massive debts from when they were training.
I am very glad I grew up in a country that has always had a public health service. I have only had to use it on a few occasions as I am very fit and active but I like it being there. I get to see exactly how much comes out of my wages every month to cover it and I by no means get my moneys worth at the moment, maybe I never will. I also know that if I do ever need to make much greater use of it the National Health Service will be there.
The other way to look at our system is forced insurance by a company that cannot take money out as profit. If I earn, I have to pay a percentage of my wages to cover my healthcare. In the American system I would be able to not pay for healthcare at all even though I earn a reasonable wage, then sponge of medicare should I ever need healthcare.
I am not saying I am against private medical insurance though. Many of my friends and co-workers have private medical insurance as well. This doe not cover things like pregnancy that are avoidable, but will mean they can get quicker treatment in a nicer hospital should they develop a disease that requires long term care. When I have a family I may get family health care for their sake rather than mine, but in the mean time I will make do with the NHS since it provides everything I need.
The main reason people choose private is not about quality of care, its about the better customer service you receive. Private doctors will talk to you and hold your hand through and treatment you need whereas the NHS doctors concentrate of healing people.
The only time I have ever used the NHS for a major issue was when I broke two metacarples in my right hand and needed extensive surgery including two metal pins grafted into my hand while the bone healed to hold it together. I now have a right hand which is far stronger than my left, I climb on it regularly so I have no long term after effects. When I was in hospital though I did feel like a factory chicken, I has hearded through every phase as quickly as possible and only had a bed for one night after surgery while I recovered from a general anaesthetic. The pins were removed an outpatient meaning I went in for an hour or two then went straight home.
I never spoke to the person who operated on me. He came in for a few moments before surgery and made a few notes into his tape recorder without even talking to me directly at all. I can understand why a lot of people would hate this, but can also appreciate exactly how efficient this was in terms of his time, and besides the nurses are much nicer to talk to anyway.
In your post you make IE7 sound like it was created in the dark ages and therefore no longer relevant, that is plainly untrue.
Ok, it is now more than a year old. It is also however the predominant browser so it is fair play to compare against. Most comparisons are made with the market leader in a field.
You mention in your post about beating IE8 final being a neat trick. Damn right it would be as IE8 is not yet final so the only way to get a copy is to use a time machine and go forward a couple of months.
Excellent post, shame about the cretin who modded you down, he was probably just a republican though and they are far lower down the evolutionary ladder than any ape.
I do not think you know what you are talking about. Executive privilege is used TO RESIST SEARCH WARRANTS.
Yet the page you link to as proof says it can be used to resist search warrants "and other interventions by the legislative and judicial branches of government."
Maybe you should fully read links that you post backing up you point of view from start to finish in order to not comes across looking like an idiot.
Why has this been modded flamebait? it seems like a valid point to me and also to most legal systems (including the US). The person who commissioned a crime to be committed is surely just as guilty as the people who committed it?
All three of them should be tried together and face the same penalty.
It is not just about bribing the local politicians. It is also about Ireland being a damn decent place to run a business. You have lower levels of violent crime, a very stable currency and a well educated populace. Add to this a much lower cost of living than many other countries nearby and you also get a very happy workforce who are then more productive.
As you can see allocating gigabytes can hurt - since it'll take days to swap in and out processes that are using gigabytes of swap. You'll run out of time before you run out of swap, and when that happens somebody will do a hard shutdown of the machine - and that means ALL processes will be abnormally terminated, rather than just one.
Only if you actually rely on using the swap. The parent poster was obviously saying that you allocate a ton of swap you don't need just because hard drives are cheap.
I allocate twice the memory I am ever likely to put in a machine (ie - maximum memory the motherboard supports) by the same token. On my current PC that means I allocated 6Gb out of a 135Gb disk as swap. I have a separate drive (250Gb) for documents so the first 135Gb drive is only for programs and I have not filled it in the past 5 years so who gives a crap if I waste a few gigs of it. I always try and keep 10% of a hard disk free anyway in case I ever need it for unexpected events. The swap is in case I ever need to run a very memory hungry program as a one off.
Quite simple: run a mailserver, then use these type of DNS servers.
No thanks:)
Then 7 days later (instead of a few hours later) the e-mail gets sent back with the message that the other server doesn't accept the mail (instead of saying that the domain doesn't exist)
Why? Surely the sending mail server should first query the MX record for the domain it wants to send to and then do an A record lookup on the name of the machine this returns. Do they spoof MX records as well as there seems very little point in doing this to show people a pretty web page. If they are spoofing MX records this is far more annoying but I have not found any evidence that this is so. If you have some can you post the links?
As an aside this sort of DNS spoofing (A and AAAA records only) can be really useful. We used to a use a similar method to spoof doubleclick and similar ad sites so they could not track any users from within our network in a community project I was involved in. It mapped all DNS requests for known ad farm sites to a local machine that just served up a picture of spam to all requests. This also saved us bandwidth back in the days when this was at premium as we were only on an 64K ISDN connection. We also provided a non-spoofing DNS server to people who asked us but most people were happy at not having to wait for adverts on a page to load from a remote server.
How can this hurt the underlying stability of the internet??
Aside from hurting the underlying stability of the Internet, there have been instances where hackers have used such tools against customers.
Yet the page linked in the above statement just details how a security researcher came up with a proof of concept that was specific to a different companies implementation of the same idea.
A knowledge of martial arts might help you fight back or it might not. Modern martial arts aren't really street fighting arts. That said, it won't help prevent you from being mugged in the first place. Readily available firearms will.
Readily available firearms do not help if you are already engaged in hand to hand combat, that was the entire point of my post. Since you did not bother reading my first post I can not be bothered explaining it all again.
Um, any US President who wouldn't cross another country's border w/o permission if it was necessary should be dragged out back and shot.
When talking about a nuclear armed country that sort of attitude can start world war three. When talking about a non-nuclear armed country it makes the US come across as a global dictatorship. We do not elect your presidents, so they should have no right to determine how we run our countries simply by threatening force.
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What I want to know is whether this will apply to Americas Army, the game produced specifically for kids to get them interested in a career in the military? It is a First Person Shooter but you only ever get to shoot terrorists. Does that make it OK?
It may not be open source but Americas Army runs on modest hardware and is a free download. Some of the maps are quite complicated but some are fairly open so take no time to learn. There are also usually loads of empty servers so you can have a quick walk around to see which map you like the look of in peace before diving into combat.
The only downside is the training missions you have to perform once at the start but solutions to these can be found on the web. In particular utube has walkthroughs for the hardest training mission called Escape and Evade. With this in mind it might you a couple of hours to setup an account initially and download it but this is one off investment you will never have to repeat.
There are also maps you can dive straight into playing without setting up an account but I have never tried these as they have only appeared in more recent versions after I was hooked.
If you include all the industries we in the we just bailed out with state money maybe we are not too different.
We in the west will quite happily turn to state ownership when it suits us judging by the recent banking and auto bail outs.
The problem with our system is then when the good times roll again it will not be government that really benefits, it will be private shareholders. At least in the Chinese system of state ownership then the profits get absorbed by the government as well the losses.
This is something mentioned at the very end of the article you posted when he talks about the contracting agencies taking very nice profits for providing key federal staff. That article made very interesting reading by the way, thanks for the link.
I have absolutely no idea what anonymous coward crap post you are talking about as I have all AC's weighted at -5. If you got to your settings page on slashdot you should be able to figure out how to do this too. It is one of the most useful features of slashcode for me and a great many other slashdot users.
The moral of this is that if you want people to read your comments then you need to sign up and join the karma system like everyone else.
The problem with blocking his IP is that most people in europe have dynamic IP addresses so changing your IP is as simple as reconnecting to the net.
The only problem with your logic is that you assume that modern 3D graphics cards are just as good at 2d rendering as they are at 3D. Unfortunately this is not the case. Both ATI and NVidia concentrate on what gets them good reviews, and that is good 3d rendering for games. Quite frequently this is at the expense of 2D performance.
A modern high-end graphics card is optimised for its 3D pipelines, so I personally would try and use them whenever possible. Hopefully the driver does that all automatically but if it is true that you change the way windows renders stuff by disabling aero then you are probably not using your PC to its fullest. A better idea might be to keep Aero enabled but turn off the eye candy you don't like on a feature by feature basis.
Of course I still don't use vista and I dont have to support it at work so I have no idea how it works in the least.
So it only makes sense that errors in this estimation process are going to be revealed in the later half (i.e. the descent).
Partly, but there is another factor that comes to my mind as an experienced non-ice climber: Descending is actually harder then ascending.
While downclimbing your head is at the wrong end so you cannot fully see where you are going. You have to place each crampon in the ice blindly then try and shift your weight to it and see how it feels. This is damn hard work and extremely scary. When I am was leading outdoors in the Alps last year (on solid rock) I went up something that scared me shitless simply because downclimbing the bit I had just done was far more scary at the time. Even on rock you cannot see what you just put you foot on so feeling is everything.
Most climbers learn to trust their hands far more than their feet as you have more control over your hands. If my feet lose traction it is my arms that will do the recovering. Partly because snap loading my arms is less likely to fracture a bone and partly because it is easier to see something to grab as it flies past. On ice you smash your ice axe in to whatever looks solid and hope it holds long enough or slows you down enough to do the same with the other arm.
I may tear muscle fibre but this is a hell of a lot less painful than a compound spiral fracture of one my shin bones or major dislocation of my knee joint. Also, if I trash an arm totally I may manage to get off the mountain and then walk back to civilisation, this is much harder if I cannot even walk when I get to the bottom. Climbers routinely practice snap loading their arms by letting go then catching a feature a few feet below before a major expedition or tricky climb.
Lowering off using ropes is frequently out of the question since you probably do not have enough gear to leave an anchor point left on the mountain every 60 metres or so. To do this on everest would probably require carrying hundreds of icescrews but I cannot be bothered to work out an exact number since carrying 10 or 15 each is about your limit with all the other gear you need. You will leave some on the mountain, but you have to choose the places you use them on the descent very carefully. (On the ascent your second can collect them as he climbs the bit you have just lead)
Disclaimer: I have never seriously injured myself half way up a mountain. This is all theoretical and I hope it stays that way.
Ruby is not really a serious programming language to be used in mission critical projects. It is an excellent resource for teaching development best practice due to the patterns it enforces but this comes at a cost. That cost is inflexibility. It frequently restricts thing that are on the borderlines of acceptable practice but in certain very specific circumstances are the best way of achieving a given end.
The only immediate example I can think of in my lunch break is it rigorous enforcement of best practice in database design. The real world is not perfect, sometimes you have to write code that interfaces with truly awful database design to get at legacy data, in this instance forget Ruby. If you are going to have to avoid a platform for certain jobs why use it at all?
Don't get me wrong, I think everyone should learn Ruby in the same way that everyone should learn Pascal. Pascal on the other hand cannot hold a candle to C or C++ in terms of professional development projects due to the flexibility it offers.
Quite frequently in the real world commercial pressures force an interim solution that Ruby cannot hope to offer for the reasons above. You might say that it is better to perform a complete rewrite in these situations but sometimes this is simply not possible due to the number of man hours available for a particular project.
We looked at converting our system to Ruby a few years ago but we simply did not have the developers to perform a complete rewrite in the time available. We could not afford to put all paying work on hold for the 9 months it would have taken our entire development team. In the end we chose PHP as this have us the flexibility we needed while allowing us to migrate the most important parts first but still use the old code for the rarely used pages until we need to modify them. While having the two systems side by side would be possible it would not be practical to get Ruby to pull data from an archaic awful database design that the old required.
Now some people say that Ruby is still perfect for new systems that will never be effected by these factors. I always counter that you never know what is round the corner in business, that is why flexibility is key.
But at least IBM will provide OSS developers with the info they need to inter operate with Lotus. Do you see MS doing the same thing with regards to exchange?
The biggest problem with going anywhere near the legal line in these sorts of cases is not losing the case. The biggest problem is having to fight the case in the first place. It costs a fortune even if you win and is a permanent black mark on the managers record.
Quite often it is cheaper to pay the person suing you off rather than attempt to fight the case.
We're stuck with the same leadership over here for likely another 18 months or so.
Not just that, the just elected the Democrats, traditionally the more liberty friendly of their two parties. We currently have the Labour party in power, the only people we can elect who stand any chance of winning are our Conservative party who traditionally are the more right wing of our two parties.
Your supposed to send disagree mail to the operator, not post it on the site :)
That might work on some or most files, but there still is no replacement for Acrobat.
Why not? Foxit works treat for me. I have not yet found a PDF that it cannot open, even the encrypted ones I have been sent. It is also smaller and faster than the adobe software so runs better on old PC's like mine.
And in a few years you will have the exact same situation. The problem isn't the actors, it is the stage.
Over here in Britain we have a saying:
"It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always get in."
What is missing now is respect for authority.
This is bang on. So what we need to do is figure out how to put that respect back. This is not something that can be forced on young people though, respect always has to be earned.
My personal suggestion is that a society that practices the same messages it preaches to children and tries to live by the same rules we set for kids is the way forward. Obviously there are exceptions to this, but they should be few and far between.
If we as a nation constantly try and bully the world into doing our bidding using military might to force our will on other how can we be surprised when our kids mimic that behaviour in the playground.
Our parents grew up in an era when many countries in the world united to fight off a bully of mammoth proportions. This idea of standing up to fight oppression instilled a level of respect instilled a great deal of respect for the governmental institutions that made it possible.
This is not saying that all social problems disappeared during the 2nd World War, but it is saying that more people were willing to stand up for things believed in at home as well as fighting abroad.
Funny, I wonder what would happen to their level of competence and the budget when that tax payer insurance had to cover lawsuits..
Nothing. We have exactly that system in the UK. The taxpayer might cover health service doctors as their sole employer if they are sued, but they have to deal with being barred from practising medicine ever again. If you train for 5-8 years to become a medical professional you do not want to screw up and have to find a new career. Especially when you include the fact that they invariably have massive debts from when they were training.
I am very glad I grew up in a country that has always had a public health service. I have only had to use it on a few occasions as I am very fit and active but I like it being there. I get to see exactly how much comes out of my wages every month to cover it and I by no means get my moneys worth at the moment, maybe I never will. I also know that if I do ever need to make much greater use of it the National Health Service will be there.
The other way to look at our system is forced insurance by a company that cannot take money out as profit. If I earn, I have to pay a percentage of my wages to cover my healthcare. In the American system I would be able to not pay for healthcare at all even though I earn a reasonable wage, then sponge of medicare should I ever need healthcare.
I am not saying I am against private medical insurance though. Many of my friends and co-workers have private medical insurance as well. This doe not cover things like pregnancy that are avoidable, but will mean they can get quicker treatment in a nicer hospital should they develop a disease that requires long term care. When I have a family I may get family health care for their sake rather than mine, but in the mean time I will make do with the NHS since it provides everything I need.
The main reason people choose private is not about quality of care, its about the better customer service you receive. Private doctors will talk to you and hold your hand through and treatment you need whereas the NHS doctors concentrate of healing people.
The only time I have ever used the NHS for a major issue was when I broke two metacarples in my right hand and needed extensive surgery including two metal pins grafted into my hand while the bone healed to hold it together. I now have a right hand which is far stronger than my left, I climb on it regularly so I have no long term after effects. When I was in hospital though I did feel like a factory chicken, I has hearded through every phase as quickly as possible and only had a bed for one night after surgery while I recovered from a general anaesthetic. The pins were removed an outpatient meaning I went in for an hour or two then went straight home.
I never spoke to the person who operated on me. He came in for a few moments before surgery and made a few notes into his tape recorder without even talking to me directly at all. I can understand why a lot of people would hate this, but can also appreciate exactly how efficient this was in terms of his time, and besides the nurses are much nicer to talk to anyway.
In your post you make IE7 sound like it was created in the dark ages and therefore no longer relevant, that is plainly untrue.
Ok, it is now more than a year old. It is also however the predominant browser so it is fair play to compare against. Most comparisons are made with the market leader in a field.
You mention in your post about beating IE8 final being a neat trick. Damn right it would be as IE8 is not yet final so the only way to get a copy is to use a time machine and go forward a couple of months.
Excellent post, shame about the cretin who modded you down, he was probably just a republican though and they are far lower down the evolutionary ladder than any ape.
(Now, that was a troll - learn the difference)
I do not think you know what you are talking about. Executive privilege is used TO RESIST SEARCH WARRANTS.
Yet the page you link to as proof says it can be used to resist search warrants "and other interventions by the legislative and judicial branches of government."
Maybe you should fully read links that you post backing up you point of view from start to finish in order to not comes across looking like an idiot.
Why has this been modded flamebait? it seems like a valid point to me and also to most legal systems (including the US). The person who commissioned a crime to be committed is surely just as guilty as the people who committed it?
All three of them should be tried together and face the same penalty.
It is not just about bribing the local politicians. It is also about Ireland being a damn decent place to run a business. You have lower levels of violent crime, a very stable currency and a well educated populace. Add to this a much lower cost of living than many other countries nearby and you also get a very happy workforce who are then more productive.
As you can see allocating gigabytes can hurt - since it'll take days to swap in and out processes that are using gigabytes of swap. You'll run out of time before you run out of swap, and when that happens somebody will do a hard shutdown of the machine - and that means ALL processes will be abnormally terminated, rather than just one.
Only if you actually rely on using the swap. The parent poster was obviously saying that you allocate a ton of swap you don't need just because hard drives are cheap.
I allocate twice the memory I am ever likely to put in a machine (ie - maximum memory the motherboard supports) by the same token. On my current PC that means I allocated 6Gb out of a 135Gb disk as swap. I have a separate drive (250Gb) for documents so the first 135Gb drive is only for programs and I have not filled it in the past 5 years so who gives a crap if I waste a few gigs of it. I always try and keep 10% of a hard disk free anyway in case I ever need it for unexpected events. The swap is in case I ever need to run a very memory hungry program as a one off.
Quite simple: run a mailserver, then use these type of DNS servers.
No thanks :)
Then 7 days later (instead of a few hours later) the e-mail gets sent back with the message that the other server doesn't accept the mail (instead of saying that the domain doesn't exist)
Why? Surely the sending mail server should first query the MX record for the domain it wants to send to and then do an A record lookup on the name of the machine this returns. Do they spoof MX records as well as there seems very little point in doing this to show people a pretty web page. If they are spoofing MX records this is far more annoying but I have not found any evidence that this is so. If you have some can you post the links?
As an aside this sort of DNS spoofing (A and AAAA records only) can be really useful. We used to a use a similar method to spoof doubleclick and similar ad sites so they could not track any users from within our network in a community project I was involved in. It mapped all DNS requests for known ad farm sites to a local machine that just served up a picture of spam to all requests. This also saved us bandwidth back in the days when this was at premium as we were only on an 64K ISDN connection. We also provided a non-spoofing DNS server to people who asked us but most people were happy at not having to wait for adverts on a page to load from a remote server.
How can this hurt the underlying stability of the internet??
Aside from hurting the underlying stability of the Internet, there have been instances where hackers have used such tools against customers.
Yet the page linked in the above statement just details how a security researcher came up with a proof of concept that was specific to a different companies implementation of the same idea.
A knowledge of martial arts might help you fight back or it might not. Modern martial arts aren't really street fighting arts. That said, it won't help prevent you from being mugged in the first place. Readily available firearms will.
Readily available firearms do not help if you are already engaged in hand to hand combat, that was the entire point of my post. Since you did not bother reading my first post I can not be bothered explaining it all again.
Um, any US President who wouldn't cross another country's border w/o permission if it was necessary should be dragged out back and shot.
When talking about a nuclear armed country that sort of attitude can start world war three. When talking about a non-nuclear armed country it makes the US come across as a global dictatorship. We do not elect your presidents, so they should have no right to determine how we run our countries simply by threatening force.