Sadly enough, it is mostly accurate. Usually taking down whole ISPs is a side-effect -- more likely, someone who was using that ISP pissed them off and they were trying to cut off their connection. Look at the attacks several months ago on DALnet as an example. Gigabits of bandwidth from DDoS zombies taking down an extensive IRC network at the whim of a bunch of script kiddies (apparantly because they were mad that DALnet banned some of their warez bots).
It serves porn sites interests -- the more people that are directed to their sites the better. Especially if those people are searching for XFree86 -- lonely geeks are a fairly abundant market for porn;).
How exactly does a third party determine (a) that there has been an attack on a server, (b) that the attack was successful, and (c) the OS of the server that was attacked? The only way I could see getting this information is from people filing reports about their server when it is attacked.
Likewise, in parts of the study this mi2g group quantizes exactly how many attacks certain 'hacker groups' made during the last month. I'm sure the cracker underground is just jumping at the opportunity to tell mi2g every time they compromise a server. I could see possibly establishing relationships with companies so they file reports whenever their server is compromised, but claiming they know how many attacks a given hacker group performs each month completely destroys any credibility they have in my mind.
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A swift kick to the nuts should take down any man not wearing protective covering over his genitals, no matter how large or strong. Just make sure you aren't around when he gets back up again:P.
Market correction takes many years. Although I'm lucky enough to have a job, I certainly wouldn't want to be unemployed with the hope that in a decade or so the market will fix itself and I'll have a job again.
GCC is useful in the fact that it has been ported to so many systems, but it has always produced rather slow machine code -- most likely because it has to support so many architectures it can't super-optimize for just one.
There was a study done many years ago about bugs in software. I can't remember who did it, but he discovered that after a certain point it is impossible to decrease the number of total bugs in a given piece of software -- everytime a patch fixed one batch of bugs, another batch was introduced. He then postulated that the only way to create bug-free software was to never let bugs in -- aka clean-room programming. Unfortunately, most developers who rewrite software from scratch don't rewrite it using clean-room practices, and end up with a new codebase that is just as buggy as the old one.
You might want to take a look at topcoder. Their contests award points based on how quickly you submit the problems. Virtually all of the top coders (forgive the pun) use C/C++ as their primary language because the development time is so much faster. In fact, there was a discussion on their message boards a few months ago about it, and several people switched their primary language to C/C++ in order to remain competitive.
Most likely they use the 80x86 FPU instructions (FSIN, FCOS) that calculate these values in a matter of 16-126 clock cycles. I don't know why the other compilers/languages don't, though.
A DDoS is not at all mitigatable, except by null routing the target IPs at an upstream router. Imagine everyone that lives in New York City visiting your residence simultaneously so as to prevent you from being able to do anything. That's a DDoS.
ICARUS doesn't only monitor P2P. It also monitors virus activity and quarantines parts of the network to prevent viruses from spreading. This last summer when dealing with all the students coming back in the fall with Blaster, Welchia, et al. on their computers, it made UF's time a whole lot easier. It also has a whole bunch of other functions, but I haven't been able to research that yet.
And the part about the 10-minute web program is bullshit. On your first violation, you go to the UF website, click a button, and your Internet is back.
According to the University of Florida ICARUS FAQ, this is actually entirely false. Students get their Internet access cut off for increasingly long periods of time, and thats it. Apparantly after several times, they have to go through some sort of student judicial system and it goes on their permanent record. However, it explicitly says that ICARUS is entirely dependent of any corporate sponsors or influence.
Shame comes from inside, not from outside. Someone who is perfectly comfortable with porn would not be shamed by any number of questions about it -- instead, they'd probably say something like "yeah, I especially like porn websites X Y and Z." If you feel ashamed about something, its because for one reason or another you think that it is wrong or inappropriate.
I highly doubt any single 'network appliance' could protect you from a DDoS attack. A DDoS simply fills your bandwidth -- any filters would have to be placed upstream, where a large-bandwidth router is sending data to your (relative) low-bandwidth connection. If you plan ahead, you can have a multihomed network (ie, two entirely seperate upstream routers) but this doesn't prevent DDoS kiddies from hitting both of your 'homes.'
Huh? DDoS doesn't exploit any security issues. It is just a massive, overwhelming amount of data hitting your servers, possibly even bringing down your entire subnet. Pretty much the only thing you can do is call your upstream router and ask them to block traffic from DDoS hosts -- an extremely time-consuming and tedious task, supposing your upstream router even gives a damn about you.
Reversible computing has also become more of an issue now that significant evidence points to Moore's Law failing within the next ten to twenty years. CPUs in the near future will become very heat-limited -- in fact, Dr. Michael Frank (the researcher in the article) is also very invovled in researching the physical limits of current CPUs and computer architectures. Reversible computing would reduce the heat produced by CPUs, effectively expanding their physical limits. Reversible computers are essentially a stepping stone, allowing computing speeds to continue to increase until quantum computing is at a mature and usable level.
Yes, the 80s with Reagan. If I remember correctly, an unprecedented number of jobs (17% growth) were created during that period of history, and inflation was slowed by over 10%. Probably the most impressive economic recovery in the history of mankind.
First off, the thread parent stated that eye candy was available for KDE, but not Gnome. It is more or less an extension of the author's point that KDE is far more configurable and customizable than Gnome.
Also, if you say Visual C++ has 'obsoleted' C++, you must not have any idea what you are talking about. Visual C++ is an IDE for C++, much like KDevelop is an IDE for C++. An IDE has no bearing on the actual language syntax or implementation. Given this, I will also assume your statement about KDevelop is also from ignorance.
See, this is the beauty of the GPL. Commercial companies should NOT be able to profit off of someone else's work without paying for it in some way (either financially or by opening up their own source code). Trolltech provides a very comprehensive, useful, and well-designed class library, and you expect to just be able to use it without cost? Free as in speech software is good; free as in beer software can have dangerous effects on software devleopers' job security.
It would cost quite a bit of time and money for someone to take the RIAA to court -- in fact, the RIAA is probably well aware that no single person has the resources to fight them, and is exploiting this to the fullest. First off, you would have to hire a lawyer. Representing yourself, unless you happen to be a laywer, would just make you look like a fool in front of the judge and you would get torn apart by the RIAA's legal staff. The public defender is an option, but it is doubtful they have the time that would be necessary to put together a good defense. The sheer expense of hiring a lawyer to fight the case for you is enough to chase off pretty much everyone.
Secondly, on what premise would you hope to win the case? You would have to either prove that (1) somehow, your sharing of copyrighted material was lawful or (2) you were not sharing any copyrighted material. Neither of these objectives are feasible. Although IANAL, it is possible you might be able to challenge the extremity of the $150k penalty, and with a good enough defense you might be able to win this. You would still probably be worse off financially than if you had just settled, however.
Perhaps, but processors run a lot hotter when they are executing 'real' instructions. If you ever get a noisy laptop like mine, you can actually hear the effects. As my CPU usage increases, I can hear the fan rev up to higher speeds. If you have sufficient cooling, this really isn't a problem. However, on laptops there usually isn't sufficient cooling for a machine running at full capacity, so sometimes it is dangerous to run a 100% CPU utlization application for extended periods of time.
The first amendment provides no defense for taking "Under God" out of the constitution. First off, Congress isn't making a law, nor has it made a law, concerning saying the words "Under God" in the pledge. Secondly, "respecting an establishment of religion" refers to the actual buildings that religions meet in. Neither of these qualifications applies to the words "Under God" in the pledge, so it is quite obvious the pledge in its current version is fully constitutional.
Because explicit memory allocation is one of the things that makes C++ so much more efficient than every language you mentioned. You get a lot more out of a regular bike than a bike with training wheels -- as long as you know what you're doing.
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Sadly enough, it is mostly accurate. Usually taking down whole ISPs is a side-effect -- more likely, someone who was using that ISP pissed them off and they were trying to cut off their connection. Look at the attacks several months ago on DALnet as an example. Gigabits of bandwidth from DDoS zombies taking down an extensive IRC network at the whim of a bunch of script kiddies (apparantly because they were mad that DALnet banned some of their warez bots).
It serves porn sites interests -- the more people that are directed to their sites the better. Especially if those people are searching for XFree86 -- lonely geeks are a fairly abundant market for porn ;).
How exactly does a third party determine (a) that there has been an attack on a server, (b) that the attack was successful, and (c) the OS of the server that was attacked? The only way I could see getting this information is from people filing reports about their server when it is attacked. Likewise, in parts of the study this mi2g group quantizes exactly how many attacks certain 'hacker groups' made during the last month. I'm sure the cracker underground is just jumping at the opportunity to tell mi2g every time they compromise a server. I could see possibly establishing relationships with companies so they file reports whenever their server is compromised, but claiming they know how many attacks a given hacker group performs each month completely destroys any credibility they have in my mind.
A swift kick to the nuts should take down any man not wearing protective covering over his genitals, no matter how large or strong. Just make sure you aren't around when he gets back up again :P.
Market correction takes many years. Although I'm lucky enough to have a job, I certainly wouldn't want to be unemployed with the hope that in a decade or so the market will fix itself and I'll have a job again.
GCC is useful in the fact that it has been ported to so many systems, but it has always produced rather slow machine code -- most likely because it has to support so many architectures it can't super-optimize for just one.
There was a study done many years ago about bugs in software. I can't remember who did it, but he discovered that after a certain point it is impossible to decrease the number of total bugs in a given piece of software -- everytime a patch fixed one batch of bugs, another batch was introduced. He then postulated that the only way to create bug-free software was to never let bugs in -- aka clean-room programming. Unfortunately, most developers who rewrite software from scratch don't rewrite it using clean-room practices, and end up with a new codebase that is just as buggy as the old one.
You might want to take a look at topcoder. Their contests award points based on how quickly you submit the problems. Virtually all of the top coders (forgive the pun) use C/C++ as their primary language because the development time is so much faster. In fact, there was a discussion on their message boards a few months ago about it, and several people switched their primary language to C/C++ in order to remain competitive.
Most likely they use the 80x86 FPU instructions (FSIN, FCOS) that calculate these values in a matter of 16-126 clock cycles. I don't know why the other compilers/languages don't, though.
A DDoS is not at all mitigatable, except by null routing the target IPs at an upstream router. Imagine everyone that lives in New York City visiting your residence simultaneously so as to prevent you from being able to do anything. That's a DDoS.
ICARUS doesn't only monitor P2P. It also monitors virus activity and quarantines parts of the network to prevent viruses from spreading. This last summer when dealing with all the students coming back in the fall with Blaster, Welchia, et al. on their computers, it made UF's time a whole lot easier. It also has a whole bunch of other functions, but I haven't been able to research that yet. And the part about the 10-minute web program is bullshit. On your first violation, you go to the UF website, click a button, and your Internet is back.
According to the University of Florida ICARUS FAQ, this is actually entirely false. Students get their Internet access cut off for increasingly long periods of time, and thats it. Apparantly after several times, they have to go through some sort of student judicial system and it goes on their permanent record. However, it explicitly says that ICARUS is entirely dependent of any corporate sponsors or influence.
Shame comes from inside, not from outside. Someone who is perfectly comfortable with porn would not be shamed by any number of questions about it -- instead, they'd probably say something like "yeah, I especially like porn websites X Y and Z." If you feel ashamed about something, its because for one reason or another you think that it is wrong or inappropriate.
I highly doubt any single 'network appliance' could protect you from a DDoS attack. A DDoS simply fills your bandwidth -- any filters would have to be placed upstream, where a large-bandwidth router is sending data to your (relative) low-bandwidth connection. If you plan ahead, you can have a multihomed network (ie, two entirely seperate upstream routers) but this doesn't prevent DDoS kiddies from hitting both of your 'homes.'
Huh? DDoS doesn't exploit any security issues. It is just a massive, overwhelming amount of data hitting your servers, possibly even bringing down your entire subnet. Pretty much the only thing you can do is call your upstream router and ask them to block traffic from DDoS hosts -- an extremely time-consuming and tedious task, supposing your upstream router even gives a damn about you.
Reversible computing has also become more of an issue now that significant evidence points to Moore's Law failing within the next ten to twenty years. CPUs in the near future will become very heat-limited -- in fact, Dr. Michael Frank (the researcher in the article) is also very invovled in researching the physical limits of current CPUs and computer architectures. Reversible computing would reduce the heat produced by CPUs, effectively expanding their physical limits. Reversible computers are essentially a stepping stone, allowing computing speeds to continue to increase until quantum computing is at a mature and usable level.
Yes, the 80s with Reagan. If I remember correctly, an unprecedented number of jobs (17% growth) were created during that period of history, and inflation was slowed by over 10%. Probably the most impressive economic recovery in the history of mankind.
Its not as much of a battle as it is an impending massacre. :P
First off, the thread parent stated that eye candy was available for KDE, but not Gnome. It is more or less an extension of the author's point that KDE is far more configurable and customizable than Gnome. Also, if you say Visual C++ has 'obsoleted' C++, you must not have any idea what you are talking about. Visual C++ is an IDE for C++, much like KDevelop is an IDE for C++. An IDE has no bearing on the actual language syntax or implementation. Given this, I will also assume your statement about KDevelop is also from ignorance.
See, this is the beauty of the GPL. Commercial companies should NOT be able to profit off of someone else's work without paying for it in some way (either financially or by opening up their own source code). Trolltech provides a very comprehensive, useful, and well-designed class library, and you expect to just be able to use it without cost? Free as in speech software is good; free as in beer software can have dangerous effects on software devleopers' job security.
It would cost quite a bit of time and money for someone to take the RIAA to court -- in fact, the RIAA is probably well aware that no single person has the resources to fight them, and is exploiting this to the fullest. First off, you would have to hire a lawyer. Representing yourself, unless you happen to be a laywer, would just make you look like a fool in front of the judge and you would get torn apart by the RIAA's legal staff. The public defender is an option, but it is doubtful they have the time that would be necessary to put together a good defense. The sheer expense of hiring a lawyer to fight the case for you is enough to chase off pretty much everyone.
Secondly, on what premise would you hope to win the case? You would have to either prove that (1) somehow, your sharing of copyrighted material was lawful or (2) you were not sharing any copyrighted material. Neither of these objectives are feasible. Although IANAL, it is possible you might be able to challenge the extremity of the $150k penalty, and with a good enough defense you might be able to win this. You would still probably be worse off financially than if you had just settled, however.
Perhaps, but processors run a lot hotter when they are executing 'real' instructions. If you ever get a noisy laptop like mine, you can actually hear the effects. As my CPU usage increases, I can hear the fan rev up to higher speeds. If you have sufficient cooling, this really isn't a problem. However, on laptops there usually isn't sufficient cooling for a machine running at full capacity, so sometimes it is dangerous to run a 100% CPU utlization application for extended periods of time.
The first amendment provides no defense for taking "Under God" out of the constitution. First off, Congress isn't making a law, nor has it made a law, concerning saying the words "Under God" in the pledge. Secondly, "respecting an establishment of religion" refers to the actual buildings that religions meet in. Neither of these qualifications applies to the words "Under God" in the pledge, so it is quite obvious the pledge in its current version is fully constitutional.
Because explicit memory allocation is one of the things that makes C++ so much more efficient than every language you mentioned. You get a lot more out of a regular bike than a bike with training wheels -- as long as you know what you're doing.
Magnitude is base 2 in computers ;-).