I completed my enrollment the other day and am extremely psyched to have the opportunity to participate. Opted for the 'Basic' track as I don't have the time/energy for the whole enchilada. If they want to use my feedback to help develop a monetized version, that's fine with me; I get to learn cool stuff from smart people, and the provider of the service gets to improve their product.
I think that the hackers used a few open L1 proxies on Amazon AWS.
In my list of open proxies, there are around 20 proxies on Amazon AWS, of the form
ec2-??-??-??-???.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:80
ec2-??-??-??-??.ap-southeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com:80
ec2-??-??-??-??.compute-1.amazonaws.com:80
ec2-??-??-??-??.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:80
where ??-??-??-?? is an IP address.
...so in order to find the perpetrators, we simply need to determine which seven of those proxies were used in the attack!
they'll have to run behemoths like Vista on the machine That would be a good point were it not for the fact that in addition to the advances being made in storage, display, power, and all related technologies, there is a parallel evolution going on in the realm of software platforms. Microsoft may have a huge chunk of the market right now, but as even they realize, the OS as such is becoming increasingly relevant as the Internet becomes a full-fledged platform in its own right.
The greatest immediate benefit from the transition to solid state storage will, of course, be reduced power consumption.
Coupled will fuel cell technology, mobile computing is finally going to live up to its potential.
And I love this William Gibson quote from 1991:
It wasn't until I could finally afford a computer of my own that I found out there's a drive mechanism inside- this little thing that spins around. I'd been expecting an exotic crystalline thing, a cyberspace deck or something, and what I got was a little piece of a Victorian engine that made noises like a scratchy old record player. That noise took away some of the mystique for me; it made computers less sexy. My ignorance had allowed me to romanticize them.
It's probably a truism at this point that the Open Source model's greatest strength (its openness) is also the basis of its greatest weaknesses (dogmatism and ideologically-driven decisions. Whatever you may think about his personality or his motivations, Linus is a much-need voice of pragmatism. If you look at competing *nixes in terms of technological currency, development activity, and install base, you can see the value of benevolent dictatorship - as opposed to just plain demagoguery *cough* Theo *cough*.
The larger data centers could install "bike farms" -- row upon row of stationary bikes hooked up to huge capacitors.
Locals and guest workers would be hired to pedal for one-hour shifts each, generating some portion of the needed power and giving a boost to the local economy. Don't think "galley" -- think "self-sustaining"!
If you'd like to use this idea, please contact me via my Slashdot account. Thanks.
Why are posters so fond of the anti-open source hardware vendor
NVidia?
Probably because most Slashdotters are not driver hackers nor OSS purists, they are developers, gamers, and power users -- and Nvidia's hardware (and driver support for the hardware) is phenomenal.
Your gripe is not baseless, though: would it kill Nvidia to open up a bit? Perhaps the renewed competition will encourage them to do so, although it's equally likely that they will take the opposite tack and circle their wagons ever more tightly. As long as they provide excellent binary drivers for Linux, I doubt that they will feel much incentive to go Open Source...
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I completed my enrollment the other day and am extremely psyched to have the opportunity to participate. Opted for the 'Basic' track as I don't have the time/energy for the whole enchilada. If they want to use my feedback to help develop a monetized version, that's fine with me; I get to learn cool stuff from smart people, and the provider of the service gets to improve their product.
TFA is totally bullshit.
I think that the hackers used a few open L1 proxies on Amazon AWS.
In my list of open proxies, there are around 20 proxies on Amazon AWS, of the form ec2-??-??-??-???.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:80 ec2-??-??-??-??.ap-southeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com:80 ec2-??-??-??-??.compute-1.amazonaws.com:80 ec2-??-??-??-??.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:80 where ??-??-??-?? is an IP address.
...so in order to find the perpetrators, we simply need to determine which seven of those proxies were used in the attack!
I think you must really have no spine if you except money from the FBI to backdoor crypto software.
"I needed the money to pay for my prosthetic spine!"
"I doubt it, therefore it's not true": Security through incredulity!
tl;dr ;-)
Cod...is there anything they can't do?
No closing parenthesis is forthcoming -- it was an eyeless frowny!
Coupled will fuel cell technology, mobile computing is finally going to live up to its potential.
And I love this William Gibson quote from 1991:
It wasn't until I could finally afford a computer of my own that I found out there's a drive mechanism inside- this little thing that spins around. I'd been expecting an exotic crystalline thing, a cyberspace deck or something, and what I got was a little piece of a Victorian engine that made noises like a scratchy old record player. That noise took away some of the mystique for me; it made computers less sexy. My ignorance had allowed me to romanticize them.It's not like we're talking about images of Mohammed or something!
It's probably a truism at this point that the Open Source model's greatest strength (its openness) is also the basis of its greatest weaknesses (dogmatism and ideologically-driven decisions. Whatever you may think about his personality or his motivations, Linus is a much-need voice of pragmatism. If you look at competing *nixes in terms of technological currency, development activity, and install base, you can see the value of benevolent dictatorship - as opposed to just plain demagoguery *cough* Theo *cough*.
Alright, so technically that was two questions. Sorry.
Who is your meth dealer, and does he make house calls?
Locals and guest workers would be hired to pedal for one-hour shifts each, generating some portion of the needed power and giving a boost to the local economy. Don't think "galley" -- think "self-sustaining"!
If you'd like to use this idea, please contact me via my Slashdot account. Thanks.
Big deal. ______ has had this in the kernel since ______.
I am sure I am not alone in imagining a Beowulf cluster of these....
Probably because most Slashdotters are not driver hackers nor OSS purists, they are developers, gamers, and power users -- and Nvidia's hardware (and driver support for the hardware) is phenomenal.
Your gripe is not baseless, though: would it kill Nvidia to open up a bit? Perhaps the renewed competition will encourage them to do so, although it's equally likely that they will take the opposite tack and circle their wagons ever more tightly. As long as they provide excellent binary drivers for Linux, I doubt that they will feel much incentive to go Open Source...
does the browser pass the Acid2 test?
It's about time!
Yeah, substitute "yourself" for "your creature", and eliminate step 3, and it sounds pretty much like my life.
With more and more people using Firefox, all those popups had to go somewhere...