The problem is that tazers have no feedback. You can standback, shoot, and simply watch as you inflict pain on someone. With a batton you feel the shock as you hit someone, with pepper spray you feel the burn if you miss, etc etc.
Combining that weapon, with whatever percentage of cops that love to go on power trips, is not a good combo.
Give me a break. Creating dual booting systems is not trivial. I'm a computer science major, and I still screw it up. Clearly, because making a system dual boot is hard, linux must suck.
I wonder what would have happened if these people weren't the 400 richest Americans, and instead 400 Joe sixpacks. I imagine that these guys would have gotten away no problem.
Along the opposite side, the article talks specifically about the group stealing 1m from an individual. If your one of the richest 400 in America, surely you have more than 1m in bank right? I wonder if they group wanted to stay under a certain amount of cash for a particular reason.
What most people don't understand is that all of the following are true:
a) Crappy brain + gifted drive = mediocre career b) Mediocre brain + mediocre drive = mediocre career c) Gifted brain + crappy drive = mediocre career
Being "gifted" doesn't mean shit without a lot of other good attributes. Even if you have a gifted brains AND drive, if you have really crappy anger management, your still screwed. Schooling is only 1 part of a much much much larger equation.
I would suggest visiting this page to see what some famous people have said about the subject.
scheduling theory - check device drivers - you wish file system theory - check memory management theory - check networking - you wish
My experience has been the exact opposite. I took an operating systems course at a four year university, and we didn't write a single line code that wasn't in user land. That wasn't the intro to operating systems course either, that was the 400 level five credit course. I even went to my professor with some specific questions about the Linux kernel system. My professor explained to me that he didn't know jack shit about actual kernel implementation, instead he only knew theory.
You may think, gee, well that professor must have been a bad one. Most of my class thought the opposite. They thought he was some sort of uber hacker, but that was mostly because he wrote his own book for the class. Then again, most of my fellow students wouldn't know a kernel module if it bit them in the ass.
The whole course was a HUGE disappointment for me.
There is nothing magical about 1.5Mbps up/down over T1 vs 1.5Mbps up/down over dsl. Smart Jacks convert DSL signaling to T1 signaling, and they are very common.
The real difference how dsl vs T1 traffic is prioritized by the ISP. Obviously the T1 traffic is a higher priority than DSL.
I would imagine that having your data centers in physical locations with:
a) cheap energy b) cheap land c) cheap connections
is *REALLY* important to running a successful business. So much so that building data centers with the ability to follow these requirements as they move around, is worth it.
Also the ability to say "We have three extra data centers parked out back" is pretty awesome.
I believe religion is caused by a combination of two factors. The first one being genetics. I don't believe I ever was ever given the ability to believe in a religion. My mind is scientific by nature. When I see something beautiful I start envision the equations that make that happen. When I start having a conversation about religion, and I am simply not capable of truly considering the theists arguments.
The second factor is family / society. I believe that the details of any religion are taught, and not instinctive. You know that saying, "there are no atheists in fox holes". My response would be "there are no truly isolated theists"
I don't understand why people keep equating T1's to fast internet. Your office has the equivalent of about 50x dialup connections for about 60 people. It doesn't take a veteran sysadmin to understand why that is a problem.
What version of firefox are you using? I used to have problems with firefox memory leaks, but with recent updates, all the way up to firefox 2, I have not had those issues.
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The problem is that tazers have no feedback. You can standback, shoot, and simply watch as you inflict pain on someone. With a batton you feel the shock as you hit someone, with pepper spray you feel the burn if you miss, etc etc.
Combining that weapon, with whatever percentage of cops that love to go on power trips, is not a good combo.
"Set tazers to torture."
"Yes Captain!"
So a law intended for terrorists is being used against animal rights activists, wow.
It is like a modern day version of
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bs515rZOdk
if(!in_array($prober,$controlservers)) {
ddos($prober);
}
The guys who are creating this botnet have a history of being clever. I dought they forgot the if statement.
point of sale dude
Wow thats awesome.
Give me a break. Creating dual booting systems is not trivial. I'm a computer science major, and I still screw it up. Clearly, because making a system dual boot is hard, linux must suck.
"Bandwidth is not an issue and you will barely notice the extra load on your machine."
If that is the case, why do they need more servers?
I wonder what would have happened if these people weren't the 400 richest Americans, and instead 400 Joe sixpacks. I imagine that these guys would have gotten away no problem.
Along the opposite side, the article talks specifically about the group stealing 1m from an individual. If your one of the richest 400 in America, surely you have more than 1m in bank right? I wonder if they group wanted to stay under a certain amount of cash for a particular reason.
What most people don't understand is that all of the following are true:
a) Crappy brain + gifted drive = mediocre career
b) Mediocre brain + mediocre drive = mediocre career
c) Gifted brain + crappy drive = mediocre career
Being "gifted" doesn't mean shit without a lot of other good attributes. Even if you have a gifted brains AND drive, if you have really crappy anger management, your still screwed. Schooling is only 1 part of a much much much larger equation.
I would suggest visiting this page to see what some famous people have said about the subject.
http://creatingminds.org/quotes/effort.htm
No offense, but you don't sound like the type of person I would want to work with, or under, in an IT related position.
"These classes teach scheduling, device drivers, file systems, memory management, networking, etc"
scheduling theory - check
device drivers - you wish
file system theory - check
memory management theory - check
networking - you wish
My experience has been the exact opposite. I took an operating systems course at a four year university, and we didn't write a single line code that wasn't in user land. That wasn't the intro to operating systems course either, that was the 400 level five credit course. I even went to my professor with some specific questions about the Linux kernel system. My professor explained to me that he didn't know jack shit about actual kernel implementation, instead he only knew theory.
You may think, gee, well that professor must have been a bad one. Most of my class thought the opposite. They thought he was some sort of uber hacker, but that was mostly because he wrote his own book for the class. Then again, most of my fellow students wouldn't know a kernel module if it bit them in the ass.
The whole course was a HUGE disappointment for me.
You just described the entire IT industry :)
"..... Policing activities......"
Not making advertising money from IS NOT THE SAME as policing.
Google is an ADVERTISING COMPANY, they have every right to choose what advertisements they show.
Instead of allowing *any* route in IPV6, why don't you allow your route to consist of:
shortest route to your home network + shortest route from your home network to your destination ip
That would allow the maximum amplification of 2x for a DDOS attack.
That could be *very* simply enforced by limiting redundant hops to 2.
Xajax is awesome! I use it a lot at work. I think that xajax would fall into the "library" category more than the "framework" category.
There is nothing magical about 1.5Mbps up/down over T1 vs 1.5Mbps up/down over dsl. Smart Jacks convert DSL signaling to T1 signaling, and they are very common.
The real difference how dsl vs T1 traffic is prioritized by the ISP. Obviously the T1 traffic is a higher priority than DSL.
I don't care about telling what I think to the principal. What is the email address of the school board?
There is no code to detect "mediocrity".
There is no code to detect "conformity".
Only slashdot users are to blame for the moderation system. You and me are both part of that system, so you and me are to blame.
I would imagine that having your data centers in physical locations with:
a) cheap energy
b) cheap land
c) cheap connections
is *REALLY* important to running a successful business. So much so that building data centers with the ability to follow these requirements as they move around, is worth it.
Also the ability to say "We have three extra data centers parked out back" is pretty awesome.
Honestly, I would imagine that portal music players are a hell of lot harder to get "right", than portable data centers.
Hi,
I believe religion is caused by a combination of two factors. The first one being genetics. I don't believe I ever was ever given the ability to believe in a religion. My mind is scientific by nature. When I see something beautiful I start envision the equations that make that happen. When I start having a conversation about religion, and I am simply not capable of truly considering the theists arguments.
The second factor is family / society. I believe that the details of any religion are taught, and not instinctive. You know that saying, "there are no atheists in fox holes". My response would be "there are no truly isolated theists"
Adam
I don't understand why people keep equating T1's to fast internet. Your office has the equivalent of about 50x dialup connections for about 60 people. It doesn't take a veteran sysadmin to understand why that is a problem.
What version of firefox are you using? I used to have problems with firefox memory leaks, but with recent updates, all the way up to firefox 2, I have not had those issues.
That is very scarey and sad all at the same time.
That thing appears to be a moving coffin. The "crumple zone" is the driver! I imagine a semi would literly driver right over that thing.