In lots of countries around the world there are laws against big business negotiating to keep an advantaje out of its rivals reach. As far as I remember, the US is one of those countries.
Well, often "done and maybe even right" is way better than "it'll surely be right, but won't be complete on time". People with math heavy problems know the importance of acutaly getting the results. Normaly reality will check your calculations again for you anyway.
That said, of course the above isn't always true. For those situations you can just enable overflow detection. That can find some errors, but is not that extremely usefull, by the way, since it won't find all the errors (probably not even the most important ones), and you'll have to rely on code inspection and reality giving you her final word anyway.
If aliens attack, having railguns instead of missiles will make absolutely no difference. If they want to protect against somebody attacking the wester world they'd need weapons that protect against current threats, not WWII ones. Ditto for they wanting to conquer the world. If they just want to be carefull, well, how many hypotetical threats does a railgun avoids?
I see three possible explanations for that. 1) It's basic research. Researches are just wanting to study things that there is no money for, so they put an weapon-like name on it, and get the money. 2) It is space research. The same situation as basic research, but with a bit faster rewards. 3) Somebody is getting a lot of money from the government.
What; they donwloaded a script that they were using in some cracking attempt. (WTF, they are not even controlling the script themselves!) Isn't that the definition of what is a script kid?
Some people are smart only up to the time they become rich. Then, they slowly discover they don't need to think anymore, and forget about that thinking thing.
That normaly happens to arrogant people. (the ones that are arrogant after becoming rich, it doesn't matter what they tought when poor.)
Even if you can't migrate to PostgreSQL because no one may be selling support for your area, there a plenty of comercial MySQL forks. Dumping Oracle for another Oracle product is quite... illogic.
Well, Iran fits the exact description of a country that I expected to do the right thing, and run something like that from a simpler, more reliable system (no big interests on software companies, somewhat poorer researches). Based on current evidence, I guess we may be wrong.
Yep, I'd probably choose an OS that has no protection of resources by any means.
What do you want to protect your resources from anyway? It is not like there should be any task competing for those resources with your nuclear centrifugue controler. I don't even know why they use an OS at all.
We know that the virus constantly changes the speed of the centrifugues. We have no means to know if it was targeted at destroying equipment (by the mechanism the GP stated), reducing effectivity (by the mecanism of the parent) or both. We can only know that reducing efectivity is more likely, since the mix is way more sensitive to acceleration than the machine, and it is very unlikely that there is any hardware protection against small accelerations, while it is quite probable that there is hardware protection against damage to the machines.
Now, the North Korean bomb failed in a way that is expected that implosion bombs could fail. It doesn't need external intervention to explain it, just some tiny error anywhere.
Nice way to spin the point. The problem is, it was the US government that ilegaly approached thoses sites ordering them to stop doing business with Wikileaks. It was the US government that put them betwen a rock and a hard place. Now some people are just making sure the hard place is, well, hard, so that ceding to illegal orders from the government isn't such an obvious thing to do.
No party is completely in the right here, and the victmis were victimized by both parties. But it was the Us governemnt that created the problem, the people are only reacting.
If there are actual court orders, they are making a very good work of keeping them you of the public's eye. Related elsewhere those companies are only talking about US senators (also, I think only one senator) asking them to stop doing business with Wikileaks.
I had to look at the manual to see what that does... What do you mean by "-P32", that is equivalent to "--directory-prefix=32"? There is probably some bug in there.
Yet, I think the while true; do wget&; done; thing is more efficient.
They probably aren't going against the government because the government has little to lose with a DDoS. Corporations, by the other side can lose a lot. They are going where it hurts, on the pocket.
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In lots of countries around the world there are laws against big business negotiating to keep an advantaje out of its rivals reach. As far as I remember, the US is one of those countries.
Probably. Microsof and Intel probably have guns to their heads.
I can agree with that. Even more, I still have no idea what all those people buying iPads intend to do with it.
Ops. You're of course right, lame mistake by my part.
Should be redundant, like switches, external connections, power, and everything else.
Well, often "done and maybe even right" is way better than "it'll surely be right, but won't be complete on time". People with math heavy problems know the importance of acutaly getting the results. Normaly reality will check your calculations again for you anyway.
That said, of course the above isn't always true. For those situations you can just enable overflow detection. That can find some errors, but is not that extremely usefull, by the way, since it won't find all the errors (probably not even the most important ones), and you'll have to rely on code inspection and reality giving you her final word anyway.
The modding systems obey the KISS principle. No complex stuff here!
But that means you need a rocket that is orders of magnitude smaller.
You take out the gunpowder, and replace it with extra fuel and some explosion loving huge capacitors.
If aliens attack, having railguns instead of missiles will make absolutely no difference. If they want to protect against somebody attacking the wester world they'd need weapons that protect against current threats, not WWII ones. Ditto for they wanting to conquer the world. If they just want to be carefull, well, how many hypotetical threats does a railgun avoids?
I see three possible explanations for that. 1) It's basic research. Researches are just wanting to study things that there is no money for, so they put an weapon-like name on it, and get the money. 2) It is space research. The same situation as basic research, but with a bit faster rewards. 3) Somebody is getting a lot of money from the government.
That word "most" is dispensable here. You in the US spend more on military than the rest of the world combined.
What; they donwloaded a script that they were using in some cracking attempt. (WTF, they are not even controlling the script themselves!) Isn't that the definition of what is a script kid?
Some people are smart only up to the time they become rich. Then, they slowly discover they don't need to think anymore, and forget about that thinking thing.
That normaly happens to arrogant people. (the ones that are arrogant after becoming rich, it doesn't matter what they tought when poor.)
Rarely a worldwide community agrees on an opinion about something without a cause. Just think about it for a while.
Even if you can't migrate to PostgreSQL because no one may be selling support for your area, there a plenty of comercial MySQL forks. Dumping Oracle for another Oracle product is quite... illogic.
Then, why did they invest a pile of money on Sun again? Just to kill a competitor (and turn people into a superior free option at the same time)?
Well, Iran fits the exact description of a country that I expected to do the right thing, and run something like that from a simpler, more reliable system (no big interests on software companies, somewhat poorer researches). Based on current evidence, I guess we may be wrong.
Yep, I'd probably choose an OS that has no protection of resources by any means.
What do you want to protect your resources from anyway? It is not like there should be any task competing for those resources with your nuclear centrifugue controler. I don't even know why they use an OS at all.
We know that the virus constantly changes the speed of the centrifugues. We have no means to know if it was targeted at destroying equipment (by the mechanism the GP stated), reducing effectivity (by the mecanism of the parent) or both. We can only know that reducing efectivity is more likely, since the mix is way more sensitive to acceleration than the machine, and it is very unlikely that there is any hardware protection against small accelerations, while it is quite probable that there is hardware protection against damage to the machines.
Now, the North Korean bomb failed in a way that is expected that implosion bombs could fail. It doesn't need external intervention to explain it, just some tiny error anywhere.
Yeah, it is funny to see people commenting here like if nothing happened at the last two weeks.
Nice way to spin the point. The problem is, it was the US government that ilegaly approached thoses sites ordering them to stop doing business with Wikileaks. It was the US government that put them betwen a rock and a hard place. Now some people are just making sure the hard place is, well, hard, so that ceding to illegal orders from the government isn't such an obvious thing to do.
No party is completely in the right here, and the victmis were victimized by both parties. But it was the Us governemnt that created the problem, the people are only reacting.
Yes, they are being denied their right to freedom of association. They can't choose not to associate with the US governemnt.
Yet, people are mad at them because they are helping the US government...
If there are actual court orders, they are making a very good work of keeping them you of the public's eye. Related elsewhere those companies are only talking about US senators (also, I think only one senator) asking them to stop doing business with Wikileaks.
I had to look at the manual to see what that does... What do you mean by "-P32", that is equivalent to "--directory-prefix=32"? There is probably some bug in there.
Yet, I think the while true; do wget&; done; thing is more efficient.
They probably aren't going against the government because the government has little to lose with a DDoS. Corporations, by the other side can lose a lot. They are going where it hurts, on the pocket.