The block of garbage at the beginning of the handshake is, as far as I can figure out, a bandwidth test. The pattern is intended to be resistant to compression, so as to more accurately measure the real throughput of the client's connection.
Yep. A financial institution I used to work for had access to the area behind the tellers secured by a mechanical code lock with some silly code like 321 or 123. Guess which buttons had all the paint worn away?:)
Let me know when some one makes a scramble pad consumer door lock.
Sure, they're ignoring the response status, but I'll betcha most of them are doing synchronous requests. If I were solving this problem for W3C, I'd be delaying the abusers by 5 or 6 *minutes*. Maybe respond to the first request from a given IP/user agent with no or little delay, but each subsequent request within a certain timeframe incurs triple the previous delay, or the throughput gets progressively throttled-down until you're drooling it out at 150bps. That would render the really abusive applications immediately unusable, and with any luck, the hordes of angry customers would get the vendors to fix their broken software.
In some cities, such as Oakland, CA, it is already illegal to obscure your identity with masks, etc. Hats are still legal, however.
9.08.070 Masks and disguises. It is unlawful for any person in the city to appear in public in any mask, cap, cowl, hood or other thing concealing the identity of the wearer; excepting, however, persons attending or taking part in carnivals conducted in accordance with law or under permission of the proper authorities of the city and persons holding a written permit to so conceal their identity, which permit is issued by the Chief of Police. (Prior code 3-4.06)
VMWare's web site has a bit about their patent-pending layer that sits between the hardware and the other OSes, or between the host OS and the other OSes, but it's not clear what their patent claim is. Regardless, as the freemware page notes, virtualization is nothing new, so it's unlikely that they could put a halt to a similar project.
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The block of garbage at the beginning of the handshake is, as far as I can figure out, a bandwidth test. The pattern is intended to be resistant to compression, so as to more accurately measure the real throughput of the client's connection.
JSE actually processes trades through LSE's system; they don't just run the same software on their own hardware.
Yep. A financial institution I used to work for had access to the area behind the tellers secured by a mechanical code lock with some silly code like 321 or 123. Guess which buttons had all the paint worn away? :)
Let me know when some one makes a scramble pad consumer door lock.
Sure, they're ignoring the response status, but I'll betcha most of them are doing synchronous requests. If I were solving this problem for W3C, I'd be delaying the abusers by 5 or 6 *minutes*. Maybe respond to the first request from a given IP/user agent with no or little delay, but each subsequent request within a certain timeframe incurs triple the previous delay, or the throughput gets progressively throttled-down until you're drooling it out at 150bps. That would render the really abusive applications immediately unusable, and with any luck, the hordes of angry customers would get the vendors to fix their broken software.
Modafinil might do the trick.
In some cities, such as Oakland, CA, it is already illegal to obscure your identity with masks, etc. Hats are still legal, however.
9.08.070 Masks and disguises.
It is unlawful for any person in the city to appear in public in any mask, cap, cowl, hood or other thing concealing the identity of the wearer; excepting, however, persons attending or taking part in carnivals conducted in accordance with law or under permission of the proper authorities of the city and persons holding a written permit to so conceal their identity, which permit is issued by the Chief of Police. (Prior code 3-4.06)
People still run bind as root?!
VMWare's web site has a bit about their patent-pending layer that sits between the hardware and the other OSes, or between the host OS and the other OSes, but it's not clear what their patent claim is. Regardless, as the freemware page notes, virtualization is nothing new, so it's unlikely that they could put a halt to a similar project.