Read (some of) the 25+ page discussion on Broadband Reports, linked in the article. Ports 25 and 110 were active and accepting connections, followed by rejecting all logins are (presumably) harvesting their credentials. My Nmap scans during the event are included in that thread.
It was hardly harmless. They changed all the important host entries, including mail servers, and harvested logins of customers. I don't think many people would be happy if pop.gmail.com was redirected unbeknownst to user and their password was given away with a click (or auto refresh).
The cheaper option rarely includes a box pulling 60W of power (even when idle or in standby) running 24/7/365, especially when it's time to decide on a new TV.
In practice, many (most?) ISPs use transparent HTTP caches, so having 50% of the data stay internal is still no good, as on popular files (eg, a big youtube video), 99% of the traffic stays internal for HTTP. No they don't. Start here.
Confirmed today: Comcast, Verizon (DSL + FiOS), Time Warner, and Speakeasy.
Which graph are you looking at? On the one linked, IE has double the memory footprint of Firefox when 30 tabs are open, and doesn't reclaim any memory when they're closed.
"software that refuses to run without local admin privileges" = An admin who is too lazy to look up the file and registry permissions required to run the (shoddy) software and would rather put the network at risk than do real work.
Did you ever consider that maybe the reason people think they are happy with their lives is because they are and there actually isn't anything wrong with them? There's a whole lot of people on Slashdot who are happy to debate issues any day of the week that when it comes right down to it, don't really matter to a lot of people because they really aren't important. Time for a bigger world view, I think.
Here, and it applies to a significant number of other network servers.
Dramatic improvements in performance and SMP scalability shown by various database and other benchmarks, in some cases showing peak performance improvements as high as 350% over FreeBSD 6.X under normal loads and 1500% at high loads. When compared with the best performing Linux kernel (2.6.22 or 2.6.24) performance is 15% better.
* FreeBSD 7.0-R with 4BSD scheduler has close to ideal scaling on this test.
* The drop above 6 threads is due to limitations within BIND.
* Linux 2.6.24 has about 35% lower performance than FreeBSD, which is significantly at variance with the ISC results. It also doesn't scale above 3 CPUs.
* 7.0 with ULE has a bug on this workload (actually to do with workloads involving high interrupt rates). It is fixed in 8.0.
* Changes in progress to improve UDP performance do not help much with this particular workload (only about 5%), but with more scalable applications we see 30-40% improvement. e.g. NSD (ports/dns/nsd) is a much faster and more scalable DNS server than BIND (because it is better optimized for the smaller set of features it supports).
Dramatic improvements in performance and SMP scalability shown by various database and other benchmarks, in some cases showing peak performance improvements as high as 350% over FreeBSD 6.X under normal loads and 1500% at high loads. When compared with the best performing Linux kernel (2.6.22 or 2.6.24) performance is 15% better.
* FreeBSD 7.0-R with 4BSD scheduler has close to ideal scaling on this test.
* The drop above 6 threads is due to limitations within BIND.
* Linux 2.6.24 has about 35% lower performance than FreeBSD, which is significantly at variance with the ISC results. It also doesn't scale above 3 CPUs.
* 7.0 with ULE has a bug on this workload (actually to do with workloads involving high interrupt rates). It is fixed in 8.0.
* Changes in progress to improve UDP performance do not help much with this particular workload (only about 5%), but with more scalable applications we see 30-40% improvement. e.g. NSD (ports/dns/nsd) is a much faster and more scalable DNS server than BIND (because it is better optimized for the smaller set of features it supports).
This is kind of old news, but we ran into it at work today. Within the past couple weeks, Firefox 3 has imported FreeBSD 7's (je)malloc for its superior multithreaded performance and non-fragmentation.
Network Neutrality refers to ISPs double dipping on charging/extorting fees for both users paying for their connections and web sites paying for prioritization of traffic according to origination and destination. It does not refer to protocol-based QoS. It does not mean a flat, unmanaged, unQoS-ed Internet. By repeatedly and deliberately misusing this phrase, its importance is being weakened.
What remains a mystery is just how big a push Warner needed to pick sides. Analysts say Sony only prevailed following a heated bidding war against Toshiba, with the reward reaching as much as $400-million (U.S.). Neither side has confirmed the size of any bids or payments.
Other than analysts' speculation of payoffs, there's nothing that could be considered fact in this article. Pass.
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ISP access restrictions on their servers won't do anything for a client unknowingly connecting to a 3rd party via DNS hijacking/poisoning.
World-wide Rickroll?
Read (some of) the 25+ page discussion on Broadband Reports, linked in the article. Ports 25 and 110 were active and accepting connections, followed by rejecting all logins are (presumably) harvesting their credentials. My Nmap scans during the event are included in that thread.
It was hardly harmless. They changed all the important host entries, including mail servers, and harvested logins of customers. I don't think many people would be happy if pop.gmail.com was redirected unbeknownst to user and their password was given away with a click (or auto refresh).
The cheaper option rarely includes a box pulling 60W of power (even when idle or in standby) running 24/7/365, especially when it's time to decide on a new TV.
Doesn't look like it. Though I'm sure you weren't "recalling" anything, anyway.
Confirmed today: Comcast, Verizon (DSL + FiOS), Time Warner, and Speakeasy.
I don't blame Rockstar. I blame our union for not having the agreements in place to protect the creative people who drive the sales of these games.
Have you considered negotiating for yourself? That's what I do when I get a job.
Comcast hasn't advertised unlimited anything in more than 5 years. Go check their site and their advertising.
How ethical would it be to, say, try to crack his root password in a situation like this?
Take 5 seconds to boot into single-user mode, or mount the disk elsewhere sans password.
Ted Kennedy's a funny one to be talking about limiting lawsuits, given that whole driving-people-off-bridges-and-killing-them thing.
However, you can't ignore the fact that Nehalem in fact can run physics.
In fact, I can.
Was Theo on holiday for two months? Because according to the Debian bug, he was notified on February 3rd.
Which president signed the DMCA into law?
Which graph are you looking at? On the one linked, IE has double the memory footprint of Firefox when 30 tabs are open, and doesn't reclaim any memory when they're closed.
"software that refuses to run without local admin privileges" = An admin who is too lazy to look up the file and registry permissions required to run the (shoddy) software and would rather put the network at risk than do real work.
Yes, the 9-11 Commission was actually very informative and thorough. You can read all their findings here.
Firefox 3 Beta 4 is 5x faster than IE7, 3x faster than FF2
Not bad.
Did you ever consider that maybe the reason people think they are happy with their lives is because they are and there actually isn't anything wrong with them? There's a whole lot of people on Slashdot who are happy to debate issues any day of the week that when it comes right down to it, don't really matter to a lot of people because they really aren't important. Time for a bigger world view, I think.
Here, and it applies to a significant number of other network servers.
Dramatic improvements in performance and SMP scalability shown by various database and other benchmarks, in some cases showing peak performance improvements as high as 350% over FreeBSD 6.X under normal loads and 1500% at high loads. When compared with the best performing Linux kernel (2.6.22 or 2.6.24) performance is 15% better.
http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/bind-pt.png
Summary:
* FreeBSD 7.0-R with 4BSD scheduler has close to ideal scaling on this test.
* The drop above 6 threads is due to limitations within BIND.
* Linux 2.6.24 has about 35% lower performance than FreeBSD, which is significantly at variance with the ISC results. It also doesn't scale above 3 CPUs.
* 7.0 with ULE has a bug on this workload (actually to do with workloads involving high interrupt rates). It is fixed in 8.0.
* Changes in progress to improve UDP performance do not help much with this particular workload (only about 5%), but with more scalable applications we see 30-40% improvement. e.g. NSD (ports/dns/nsd) is a much faster and more scalable DNS server than BIND (because it is better optimized for the smaller set of features it supports).
Dramatic improvements in performance and SMP scalability shown by various database and other benchmarks, in some cases showing peak performance improvements as high as 350% over FreeBSD 6.X under normal loads and 1500% at high loads. When compared with the best performing Linux kernel (2.6.22 or 2.6.24) performance is 15% better.
http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/bind-pt.png
Summary:
* FreeBSD 7.0-R with 4BSD scheduler has close to ideal scaling on this test.
* The drop above 6 threads is due to limitations within BIND.
* Linux 2.6.24 has about 35% lower performance than FreeBSD, which is significantly at variance with the ISC results. It also doesn't scale above 3 CPUs.
* 7.0 with ULE has a bug on this workload (actually to do with workloads involving high interrupt rates). It is fixed in 8.0.
* Changes in progress to improve UDP performance do not help much with this particular workload (only about 5%), but with more scalable applications we see 30-40% improvement. e.g. NSD (ports/dns/nsd) is a much faster and more scalable DNS server than BIND (because it is better optimized for the smaller set of features it supports).
Read and learn.
This fully-conformant UNIX operating system--built on Mach 3.0 and FreeBSD 5--bundles over a hundred of the most popular Open Source products.
This is kind of old news, but we ran into it at work today. Within the past couple weeks, Firefox 3 has imported FreeBSD 7's (je)malloc for its superior multithreaded performance and non-fragmentation.
http://ventnorsblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/beta-3.html
More info on jemalloc:
http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd7.html (near the bottom, under "Userland enhancements")
http://people.freebsd.org/~jasone/jemalloc/bsdcan2006/jemalloc.pdf
Network Neutrality refers to ISPs double dipping on charging/extorting fees for both users paying for their connections and web sites paying for prioritization of traffic according to origination and destination. It does not refer to protocol-based QoS. It does not mean a flat, unmanaged, unQoS-ed Internet. By repeatedly and deliberately misusing this phrase, its importance is being weakened.
What remains a mystery is just how big a push Warner needed to pick sides. Analysts say Sony only prevailed following a heated bidding war against Toshiba, with the reward reaching as much as $400-million (U.S.). Neither side has confirmed the size of any bids or payments.
Other than analysts' speculation of payoffs, there's nothing that could be considered fact in this article. Pass.