Back in the days assembly was a popular hobby, so what he was an accounting major, you find recreational programmers everywhere.
Huh? A popular hobby? There just simply weren't that many home computers back in those days, and the ones that existed were extremely expensive. It wasn't a popular hobby. It was a niche hobby for very very serious geeks who had lots of extra cash. Recreational programmers were a hell of a lot more rare back in those days than they are now.
Adam and Eve had Cain and Abel. Cain found a woman and had a child. Where did the woman come from unless it was Eve herself? After all, nowhere in the bible does it say God created anyone other than Adam and Eve.
Some old rabbinical myths (Rabbinic Talmud )say Adam had another wife, Lilith, before Eve.
He's probably talking about folks with the ATI all-in-wonder cards (I have the all-in-wonder Radeon 9600 pro). They already come with all the hardware and software you need for a windows PVR. That's what they were built for.
If it's worms, etc, that take over your whole system, then yes, tehy should. The problem is a lot of malware these days are things people deliberately install on their maachines, through websites or email attachments. Securing the OS so that they can't take over the whole machine is good, but they can still trash the user data which is really the important thing on the machine. Add-ons like this are still needed to protect the users data files from dumb things the user installs/runs, even if the underlying OS is protected.
That's exactly what it looks like. And yes, the routers are set to find another path. The problem is when it finds a new path through some 3rd or 4th ISP to the Level3 network, as soon as the Level3 router sees the packet originated from a Cogent IP address, it null routes it. That's not a problem with fragility of the net, it's Level3 behaving badly. (Note: Cogent should have ponied up money for traffic to a larger provider to avoid this mess in the first place. There are no good guys involved in this.)
I have friends working for other Level3 clients and peers. The packets are getting to Level3. Then they disappear. The routes ARE advertised to them. That's the beauty of good internet routing, it heals around wounds.
FYI, smaller ISPs pay larger ISPs for bandwidth all the time. The larger ISPs have huge costs. Switches costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, filled with a bunch of cards in it that each cost hundreds of thousands. Lots of them. Lots of fiber and other costs. It gets real easy to have billions invested just in hardware. They offset those costs in part by selling bandwidth to smaller ISPs. That's the way the net works.
Try telling some small ISP that they should stop paying their upstream provider. That the upstream provider should give them bandwidth free so that the larger ISPs customers can access websites hosted by the smaller ISP. They will tell you you are living in a dream world. That's not the way the net works.
It's not a blackout. This is a FUD story. There are plenty of alternate routes in place to 'heal' a broken link between the Level3 and Cogent networks. The problem is Level3 is deliberately black-holing traffic to Cogent on the Level3 routers.
If Level3 didn't want to peer anymore with Cogent. That's understandable, it wasn't an even exchange of traffic anymore. They could have done the right thing and simply stopped the peering. Insted, they have decided to be vendictive and filter any traffic to/from Cogent's IP range, even if the traffic is coming through some other ISPs network that Level3 still has peering or paid relationships with.
One again, the internet routers are perfectly able to find routes, Level3 is just deliberately trashing the packets before they get there. The Internet isn't 'unstable'. Any ISP can filter packets entering or leaving their network, and Level3 has decided to do so in an bad way. This just means Level3 customers should be pissed. This is nothing for anyone to get their panties in a bunch over except Cogent and Level3 customers, who's ISPs are being dicks.
No. You need an average speed of at least 15 mph. Your speed can be 0 at times while you think about how to avoid an obsticle, or even negative if you decide you need to back up to go around one.
Only 26 countries recognize Taiwan as an independent country. 26 countries does NOT make up "most of the world". The United Nations has 191 member nations. I think most of them would disagree vigorously with your math.
I don't think the BSD allocator will reveal more software bugs unless the programmers have not tested with Electric Fence.
I think that's exactly the problem though. There are users out there installing applications they found somewhere, by somebody who may or may not have bothered to use a good debugger. This will prevent those unknown bad apps from fouling up the system.
I'm still on OpenBSD 3.7. I haven't tried the 3.8 builds, but I'm hoping the overhead from this won't be too bad.
You mean it will encourage sloppy coding more than the current system?
"hey, it might do something strange every once in a while, but at least it keeps running and doesn't crash, so the code is 'good-enough'".
I think Theo is doing entirely the right thing by killing badly written apps rather than letting them do bad things to the system. It's much more likely to make people fix bad code than the current system.
I'm still waiting where you show that urine is in any way LESS safe than the other fluids that are involved in plain vanilla sex.
Uh, nice rant, but your waiting for ME to show it??? I have no idea what you are talking about. The only post I have made on the entire topic is that wikipedia is not a reliable reference source. The great grandparent (ish) post used wikipedia as a reference Then someone else posted another 'reference' website with different info and got blasted for it not being a real reference site. This was ironic since wiki isn't a real reference site either. I was pointing out the irony and stating that wikipedia isn't a site of realiable information either.
I don't remember the name, but it was a live-action show about a scientist and his family(?) travelling in a high-tech RV-type vehicle in a post-apocalyptic world (years later it reminded me a lot of "The Morrow Project" RPG).
Damn, I forgot all about that one. It was interesting and did remind me a lot of the Morrow Project.
Argh, now I'm going to be trying to recall the name of that show all night now. I hate you.;P
So why the constant drumbeat of breathless stories about bugs (flaws) and exploits in Firefox?
Probably because the Firefox crowd has been very vocal about screaming "Firefox is more secure than IE! Firefox is more secure than IE!" "Switch to Firefox, it's more secure!". If they were more quietly touting it as a good alterative browser (like Opera does), you wouldn't hear as much about it. When is the last time you saw a front page story about an Opera flow? Probably not in a long time. Then again, they don't constantly scream about how secure they are, so it's not as ironic when a big old hole is found.
Was any testing of SLI vs non SLI mode done? The tests I have seen really don't show the performance boost that SLI's added cost would seem to warrant.
Why would they test that? When you are dumping $5,000 on a gaming system, why bother skimping on a few hundred bucks? Getting an extra 25% framerate for under a tenth of the cost of the machine? Sure!
Besides, if he only had one video card it would mean his penis would be smaller.;) (I kid, I kid. I'd buy dual cards too if I had silly amounts of disposable income.)
Anyone can reinstall an OS in an hour. What matters is people's DATA. You know, pictures, documents, etc, accumulated over years. Stuff all users should back up but most users don't. Those are all things that can be trashed when an exploit hits them even when they aren't running as root.
The OS being intact is real nice for your geek pride, but but all the data files being trashed is a real loss to normal people.
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Huh? A popular hobby? There just simply weren't that many home computers back in those days, and the ones that existed were extremely expensive. It wasn't a popular hobby. It was a niche hobby for very very serious geeks who had lots of extra cash. Recreational programmers were a hell of a lot more rare back in those days than they are now.
Remember, just because it isn't enumerated in the constitution, that doesn't mean the right doesn't exist.
Some old rabbinical myths (Rabbinic Talmud )say Adam had another wife, Lilith, before Eve.
He's probably talking about folks with the ATI all-in-wonder cards (I have the all-in-wonder Radeon 9600 pro). They already come with all the hardware and software you need for a windows PVR. That's what they were built for.
Anyone else wonder how a bank with only 1,644 CPUs has the power of nearly 15,000 PCs? A Xeon is worth almost 10 regular pentium chips????
If it's worms, etc, that take over your whole system, then yes, tehy should. The problem is a lot of malware these days are things people deliberately install on their maachines, through websites or email attachments. Securing the OS so that they can't take over the whole machine is good, but they can still trash the user data which is really the important thing on the machine. Add-ons like this are still needed to protect the users data files from dumb things the user installs/runs, even if the underlying OS is protected.
Dude, HARP was a fake. Remo Williams and the other CURE team members figured that one out a long time ago.
That's exactly what it looks like. And yes, the routers are set to find another path. The problem is when it finds a new path through some 3rd or 4th ISP to the Level3 network, as soon as the Level3 router sees the packet originated from a Cogent IP address, it null routes it. That's not a problem with fragility of the net, it's Level3 behaving badly. (Note: Cogent should have ponied up money for traffic to a larger provider to avoid this mess in the first place. There are no good guys involved in this.)
FYI, smaller ISPs pay larger ISPs for bandwidth all the time. The larger ISPs have huge costs. Switches costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, filled with a bunch of cards in it that each cost hundreds of thousands. Lots of them. Lots of fiber and other costs. It gets real easy to have billions invested just in hardware. They offset those costs in part by selling bandwidth to smaller ISPs. That's the way the net works.
Try telling some small ISP that they should stop paying their upstream provider. That the upstream provider should give them bandwidth free so that the larger ISPs customers can access websites hosted by the smaller ISP. They will tell you you are living in a dream world. That's not the way the net works.
If Level3 didn't want to peer anymore with Cogent. That's understandable, it wasn't an even exchange of traffic anymore. They could have done the right thing and simply stopped the peering. Insted, they have decided to be vendictive and filter any traffic to/from Cogent's IP range, even if the traffic is coming through some other ISPs network that Level3 still has peering or paid relationships with.
One again, the internet routers are perfectly able to find routes, Level3 is just deliberately trashing the packets before they get there. The Internet isn't 'unstable'. Any ISP can filter packets entering or leaving their network, and Level3 has decided to do so in an bad way. This just means Level3 customers should be pissed. This is nothing for anyone to get their panties in a bunch over except Cogent and Level3 customers, who's ISPs are being dicks.
No. You need an average speed of at least 15 mph. Your speed can be 0 at times while you think about how to avoid an obsticle, or even negative if you decide you need to back up to go around one.
Only 26 countries recognize Taiwan as an independent country. 26 countries does NOT make up "most of the world". The United Nations has 191 member nations. I think most of them would disagree vigorously with your math.
No battery either. It doesn't sound like that 'mobile' of a mobile device.
I think that's exactly the problem though. There are users out there installing applications they found somewhere, by somebody who may or may not have bothered to use a good debugger. This will prevent those unknown bad apps from fouling up the system.
I'm still on OpenBSD 3.7. I haven't tried the 3.8 builds, but I'm hoping the overhead from this won't be too bad.
"hey, it might do something strange every once in a while, but at least it keeps running and doesn't crash, so the code is 'good-enough'".
I think Theo is doing entirely the right thing by killing badly written apps rather than letting them do bad things to the system. It's much more likely to make people fix bad code than the current system.
I wish I had mod points. You've brought reality back to the thread.
Uh, nice rant, but your waiting for ME to show it??? I have no idea what you are talking about. The only post I have made on the entire topic is that wikipedia is not a reliable reference source. The great grandparent (ish) post used wikipedia as a reference Then someone else posted another 'reference' website with different info and got blasted for it not being a real reference site. This was ironic since wiki isn't a real reference site either. I was pointing out the irony and stating that wikipedia isn't a site of realiable information either.
Yep. You were lucky. I wish they would replay them on this side of the pond. I saw a few episodes on PBS about 15 years ago. Good stuff.
Damn, I forgot all about that one. It was interesting and did remind me a lot of the Morrow Project.
Argh, now I'm going to be trying to recall the name of that show all night now. I hate you. ;P
And yet they left off Farscape and Blake's 7. Crazy.
Like wikipedia is a real reference site. Anyone can post grossly inaccurate information on it. This article in particular does have some inaccuracies.
Probably because the Firefox crowd has been very vocal about screaming "Firefox is more secure than IE! Firefox is more secure than IE!" "Switch to Firefox, it's more secure!". If they were more quietly touting it as a good alterative browser (like Opera does), you wouldn't hear as much about it. When is the last time you saw a front page story about an Opera flow? Probably not in a long time. Then again, they don't constantly scream about how secure they are, so it's not as ironic when a big old hole is found.
Why would they test that? When you are dumping $5,000 on a gaming system, why bother skimping on a few hundred bucks? Getting an extra 25% framerate for under a tenth of the cost of the machine? Sure!
Besides, if he only had one video card it would mean his penis would be smaller. ;) (I kid, I kid. I'd buy dual cards too if I had silly amounts of disposable income.)
Nah. She doesn't need another hero.
Anyone can reinstall an OS in an hour. What matters is people's DATA. You know, pictures, documents, etc, accumulated over years. Stuff all users should back up but most users don't. Those are all things that can be trashed when an exploit hits them even when they aren't running as root.
The OS being intact is real nice for your geek pride, but but all the data files being trashed is a real loss to normal people.