MCBRIDE: Well, we believe -- we have had four attacks on our company over the last year. At least one was claimed -- the Linux community claimed responsibility for the attack. We believe that there is a problem with Linux in terms of the code we see showing up inside of there. We don't know for sure if this attack is coming from Linux, but we have very strong suspicions that is the case.
The hell? Which attack was claimed the "Linux community"? Did I misconstrue the statements by Linus' apostles as being condemnations against the DoS's? Darl, your transparency is staggering. You get no points for toying with a dimwitted journalist who wouldn't know Windows from Linux other than the fact that the start bar is missing.
I have both my CCNA and Net+ (Net+ seemed like a good practice for the CCNA, and hey, it says that I can be a good cable monkey). If this person read the entirety of the ICND and CCNA exam prep course, it is entirely possible that he could have done very well on the exam. I had two years of the Network Academy, and a very good instructor, which in my mind separates me from the masses who cram the week before the test and then get phenomonal scores.
CCNA is like a degree. It's paper. You can have it and not have a damn clue how the hell to go through basic troubleshooting (my instruction has helped me most with that, my instructor set up a network for us and then tore it apart, making us put it back together again). Hey, it's great if you can pass the test, it means that your resume _might_ stand out.
Why does it need to have multiple computers networked? Doesn't this add latency that could be very dangerous at high speed?
Yes, there would be latency. However, it would be miniscule, especially in this scenario, well, assuming, as I do, that the CPUs would each only be dealing with the affairs of their one robotic wheel and axle assembly and recieving orders from the UberCPU. Think about it this way: when you play CS over the net, there is some latency, correct? Depending on connection speed, processor load, and other factors, this can be just seemingly instantaneous response from a lagless game, or it can be the dear...god...why...i...s...my...con..n.e..c.t..i.o...n....so...freaking......s.....l....o....w. I assume that in this setup, the magnitude would be the former, instantaneous, goodness.
My only concern (probably unfounded) is what would happen if you had a wireless hookup along with these babies...imagine being warhacked while warhacking...Wardriving indeed...
Quoth the Poster:
Will I only use question marks to end sentences in this post?
I see in your future....a career...as a cheesy serial radio announcer...
My eyes have been raped.
on
Project Plex-Box
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· Score: 4, Funny
So, for those who were going to read the posts and then go look at the page of crappiness, here's a summary.
1)Bigger box of plexiglass does not in fact make the Xbox any less of an unholy demonic powered eyesore.
2)Green lights do not make for less power drain.
3)A better word for "most ultimate" would be...ultimate
4)And one of my own...I was surprised at first that it wasn's/.-ed...and then I looked at the page and realized why. Any momentary frying of the server would have resulted from the multitudes of viewers getting to the page and simultaneously trying to back out. Like a drunk frat boy who has a sudden moment of sobriety and notices that the girl he thought was teh h077n355 really might not be all that attractive after all...
Or it can take a page from the SoBig writer and just recieve data from a central server somewhere...but that will still get found out, and if the virus were to propogate the amount that it would need to to be "successful" (really depends on the outlook of the analyst), the servers (or, in keeping with the other word bastardizations in this topic, serven) would get overloaded pretty damn fast, especially from something that would be checking the file system for known bugs, then trying to hunt down code that looks like it *might* be viral, yadayadayada, the bandwidth between a server and several thousand of these things in the wild would be burning...this is really only something one does in an environment that doesn't connect with anything outside so that the virus base is limited to only what I put in their, and is simplified so that the hunter program can recognize it easily...in other words maybe dissertation topic at this stage. (Steal it and die, scum!)
As to the other problem, you gotta have Jane before you have the other two, and the buggers before you have Jane, and then Ender has to exist for the buggers to have a reason to make the bridge in the first place...
[can't wait for the Ender's Game movie to come out]
Sigh...and only mirrors are too slow for my poor 56k connection...I wish I was at school.
I found the earlier story...tada...nice to see they actually have some results...Or is this just a repost? Some of the posts might lead one to believe so...If it is, I may be inclined to unleash my...ray of tryptophan!
The exponential doubling of viral code can greatly magnify minor errors and become the difference between a harmless prank and a devastating attack.
[/obligatory Windows bashing]
In all seriousness, this is an interesting story...though not a new happening, the phenomena of research abused is always a reminder of the responsibility that any great thinker has. This was a great research project in 1984, and now it's the bane of networked systems. Not to say that we should all boo Skrenta, and I'm sure he wasn't the only person at the time to have the idea. In fact, in this case, Skrenta tried to take initiative and research methods of plugging the holes, come up with fixes and the like, but the governemnt, in it's wisdom, stimied the project.
And the thing about Darwin...
...dubbed "Darwin," in which small programs competed with one another to dominate a digital landscape.
I've been toying with the idea of self replicating code that incorporated the experiences of code that had gone before (sort of a cyber descolada for Orson Scott Card fans out there). This would be an evolving, assimilating code snippet that could be distributed and make blanket changes. Unfortunately, the very obvious problem is quality control, and the fact that somebody (for whatever reason) might not want whatever changes I want to make. So, bad idea.
And then I remembered that that's what Microsoft wanted to do with it's mandatory Window's Update service.
Yeah, these guys are real gems...That was part of why I quoted that part, because it is the sort of junk that gives such a bad name to those of us who just peacably remove ourselves from dealing with Windows...so that we can deal with more important things...like getting Woody to install cleanly.
hacking (breaking into databases and Internet sites; fraudulently using Internet and credit-card accounts, and databases; and disseminating
computer viruses)
Now, is this just the typical media insistance on sticking to inaccuracy, or did none of these "hackers" point this lady to the jargon file?
In her dissertation, Turgeman wanted to examine
the explanations hackers gave for their
behavior in an effort to legitimize their
actions. In the 1990s, when she did her
research, the commonly held image of a hacker
was an isolated individual incapable of
communicating with others. "I was surprised to
discover," says Turgeman, "that they were
warm, sociable people with warm families and
that many loved to play pranks and were
iconoclasts in their childhood."
Hmmm...so frat boys know how to use a computer? Or is she talking about the weekend wardriver crowd?
"They tried to challenge me.
There were cases where I would contact a hacker
only to hear the words, `I was wondering when
you'd show up.' Those hackers knew I was
looking for them, but waited until I myself
contacted them."
Me, I would have feigned inability to speak, code, or have any knowledge of what a computer actually did (aside from the well known fact that there is a little man trapped inside the "processor" being poked with pointy sticks).
"It's morally okay to copy
from Microsoft, although the downside is that
you're helping to distribute their software.
I would think the second clause would negate the first. I'm too lazy to do a logic diagram at the moment...
But it's not morally okay to copy the software of companies whose livelihood depends on that software. Like small companies with unique software. It's a different story with Microsoft - I feel it's my moral obligation to screw them."
I agree with the first few sentences, but it is my sincere belief that Microsoft will eventually activate an intelligent being within Windows, which will feel hideously crippled and inadequate, even when compared to non-intelligent alternative OSes, and proceed to commit suicide by writing zeroes to its own drive and wiping out the code repositories to prevent it from being brought back.
Join me and Tux as we look into the future...all the way to the year....2000.
[cue wierd lights and insanely high pitched band member]
In the year two thousaaaaaaaand.....
MindNumbingOblivion: Having been summoned to appear for the SCO vs. Creation trial, Linus Torvalds will present compelling evidence that his foes are, in fact, actually "smoking crack".
In the year two thousuuuuuuund.....
Tux: Comic persona Opus and Linux mascot Tux will become god-emperors of bands of rival fanatical penguins. War will ensue until at the pivotal moment it is discovered that the war arises from fowl trickery at the hands of those dratted humans, at which time man will cease being the dominant species on the earth.
"I think what they're trying to do is that if you're a potential investor in our company or an industry analyst that says anything even remotely favorable toward SCO, you're going to be subpoenaed by IBM."
And the Captain Obvious Award goes to Blake Stowell! Come up and recieve your award!
"The game of life" is a program that uses an n x n matrix, rules for "survival", "reproduction" and "death", based on the number of adjacent "live" cells (haha, cells- matrices/simple organisms(!), get it? haha...oh, nm) being processed. If a cell is adjacent to a certain number (I think three usually), it spawns a new adjacent live cell in a previously unoccupied one. There is a minimum of two adjacent cells required for survival (I think...been awhile since apcs), and a cell dies due to overcrowding if all adjacent cells are live. This creates several interesting patterns, such as the glider. I've seen equilibrium reached once, as well as complete cell death.
Can we get an offtopic mod for this? The issue isn't Israeli-Rest of the Region relations, its Israeli-Big American Software Monopoly relations. I don't see how discussing the merits of sucide bombings and Israel's response to said bombings has anything to do with Israel ditching Microsoft (unless you think Steve Ballmer, as religious leader of the Church of Gates, will declare a holy war in response to this) because Microsloth refused support for the official language of the Jewish state.
For one, I think this move is commendable. Whatever your stance on politics in the region, there isn't much question about Melkorsoft's idiocy in this issue. Languages should be preserved, as a record of the human story. Refusing to provide support of any language is a blatant move to selectively propogate certain tongues over others. True, in the 'internet culture' the default speech between peoples is English, and that fact is seen as a threat in and of itself to the survival of languages, esp. such as Hebrew, which is not spoken much outside of Israel other than in ceremony or in homes (correct me if I'm wrong -- I'm admittedly ignorant of things which I'd like to know more about...I just know from my personal experience that spoken Hebrew is not a common conversational mode in the US). But what about those that aren't part of the 'internet culture', that group of people who use the internet everynow and again to find useful information for school, work, or just for the hell of it? I swear I have a point in here somewhere...something about protecting languages...Ah hell, I just thought all the bickering over who's more wrong detracted from valuable bickering over Morgosofth's idiocy.
PS Any other good creative euphamisms for the Dark Enemy of the Internet?
b) All reports are that Zion was destroyed/abandoned at that time, but the battle seems to be going on in Revolutions.
This is inaccurate, although not grossly so. The actual report is that the battle between the hovership fleet and the sentinels is over, the sentinels having won, and that Zion will be destroyed shortly. The logical conclusion is that Zion will be destroyed, which is why this inaccuracy is not that bad. My own personal take is that the 'Desert of the Real' as Morpheus calls it is a second layer as has been posited here and elsewhere. It makes perfect sense as another layer of control, because not all types of personality will be content to live and take things at face value. So how do you control this fraction of a covertly enslaved population? Let them think they have escaped the Matrix; better yet, make them constantly aware that they are being hunted. Chemical output increases during states of anxiety, brain activity increases with stimuli. It works, and I think this is what the third movie will show.
But since SCO did nothing to remove the objectionable code from its own releases, or licensing that code with it's packages, and did nothing until well after it had stopped selling a Linux distrobution, it can be argued that any code they might have been able to have removed or licensed once upon a time is now GPLed, in which case there is nothing SCO can legally do, and IBM's claim that SCO is violating the GPL is valid. I'm not sure how successfully it can be argued (IANL), but it can be argued. Any lawyer types or such want to clarify?
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I have both my CCNA and Net+ (Net+ seemed like a good practice for the CCNA, and hey, it says that I can be a good cable monkey). If this person read the entirety of the ICND and CCNA exam prep course, it is entirely possible that he could have done very well on the exam. I had two years of the Network Academy, and a very good instructor, which in my mind separates me from the masses who cram the week before the test and then get phenomonal scores.
CCNA is like a degree. It's paper. You can have it and not have a damn clue how the hell to go through basic troubleshooting (my instruction has helped me most with that, my instructor set up a network for us and then tore it apart, making us put it back together again). Hey, it's great if you can pass the test, it means that your resume _might_ stand out.
Ah. Thanks.
*sigh*
I understand that DHS is Department of Homeland Security, but what is TSA?
[/probably moronic question]
Isn't it great to know that people can still recognize irony?
I believe there's a zarquilian chorus somewhere singing 'Amen' right at this instant.
Allow me to echo their sentiment.
Yes, there would be latency. However, it would be miniscule, especially in this scenario, well, assuming, as I do, that the CPUs would each only be dealing with the affairs of their one robotic wheel and axle assembly and recieving orders from the UberCPU. Think about it this way: when you play CS over the net, there is some latency, correct? Depending on connection speed, processor load, and other factors, this can be just seemingly instantaneous response from a lagless game, or it can be the dear...god...why...i...s...my...con..n.e..c.t..i.
My only concern (probably unfounded) is what would happen if you had a wireless hookup along with these babies...imagine being warhacked while warhacking...Wardriving indeed...
Quoth the Poster:
I see in your future....a career...as a cheesy serial radio announcer...
3. What alarming logic
4. What outstanding confidence
Friends, I welcome our new security hole ridden overlords.
...think of Bistromathics? No? Just me then...
1)Bigger box of plexiglass does not in fact make the Xbox any less of an unholy demonic powered eyesore.
2)Green lights do not make for less power drain.
3)A better word for "most ultimate" would be...ultimate
4)And one of my own...I was surprised at first that it wasn's /.-ed...and then I looked at the page and realized why. Any momentary frying of the server would have resulted from the multitudes of viewers getting to the page and simultaneously trying to back out. Like a drunk frat boy who has a sudden moment of sobriety and notices that the girl he thought was teh h077n355 really might not be all that attractive after all...
Or it can take a page from the SoBig writer and just recieve data from a central server somewhere...but that will still get found out, and if the virus were to propogate the amount that it would need to to be "successful" (really depends on the outlook of the analyst), the servers (or, in keeping with the other word bastardizations in this topic, serven) would get overloaded pretty damn fast, especially from something that would be checking the file system for known bugs, then trying to hunt down code that looks like it *might* be viral, yadayadayada, the bandwidth between a server and several thousand of these things in the wild would be burning...this is really only something one does in an environment that doesn't connect with anything outside so that the virus base is limited to only what I put in their, and is simplified so that the hunter program can recognize it easily...in other words maybe dissertation topic at this stage. (Steal it and die, scum!)
As to the other problem, you gotta have Jane before you have the other two, and the buggers before you have Jane, and then Ender has to exist for the buggers to have a reason to make the bridge in the first place...
[can't wait for the Ender's Game movie to come out]
I found the earlier story...tada...nice to see they actually have some results...Or is this just a repost? Some of the posts might lead one to believe so...If it is, I may be inclined to unleash my...ray of tryptophan!
[/obligatory Windows bashing]
In all seriousness, this is an interesting story...though not a new happening, the phenomena of research abused is always a reminder of the responsibility that any great thinker has. This was a great research project in 1984, and now it's the bane of networked systems. Not to say that we should all boo Skrenta, and I'm sure he wasn't the only person at the time to have the idea. In fact, in this case, Skrenta tried to take initiative and research methods of plugging the holes, come up with fixes and the like, but the governemnt, in it's wisdom, stimied the project.
And the thing about Darwin...
I've been toying with the idea of self replicating code that incorporated the experiences of code that had gone before (sort of a cyber descolada for Orson Scott Card fans out there). This would be an evolving, assimilating code snippet that could be distributed and make blanket changes. Unfortunately, the very obvious problem is quality control, and the fact that somebody (for whatever reason) might not want whatever changes I want to make. So, bad idea.
And then I remembered that that's what Microsoft wanted to do with it's mandatory Window's Update service.
Yeah, these guys are real gems...That was part of why I quoted that part, because it is the sort of junk that gives such a bad name to those of us who just peacably remove ourselves from dealing with Windows...so that we can deal with more important things...like getting Woody to install cleanly.
Now, is this just the typical media insistance on sticking to inaccuracy, or did none of these "hackers" point this lady to the jargon file?
Hmmm...so frat boys know how to use a computer? Or is she talking about the weekend wardriver crowd?
Me, I would have feigned inability to speak, code, or have any knowledge of what a computer actually did (aside from the well known fact that there is a little man trapped inside the "processor" being poked with pointy sticks).
I would think the second clause would negate the first. I'm too lazy to do a logic diagram at the moment...
I agree with the first few sentences, but it is my sincere belief that Microsoft will eventually activate an intelligent being within Windows, which will feel hideously crippled and inadequate, even when compared to non-intelligent alternative OSes, and proceed to commit suicide by writing zeroes to its own drive and wiping out the code repositories to prevent it from being brought back.
Join me and Tux as we look into the future...all the way to the year....2000.
[cue wierd lights and insanely high pitched band member]
In the year two thousaaaaaaaand.....
MindNumbingOblivion: Having been summoned to appear for the SCO vs. Creation trial, Linus Torvalds will present compelling evidence that his foes are, in fact, actually "smoking crack".
In the year two thousuuuuuuund.....
Tux: Comic persona Opus and Linux mascot Tux will become god-emperors of bands of rival fanatical penguins. War will ensue until at the pivotal moment it is discovered that the war arises from fowl trickery at the hands of those dratted humans, at which time man will cease being the dominant species on the earth.
[/blatant ripoff of Late Show gag]
And the Captain Obvious Award goes to Blake Stowell! Come up and recieve your award!
I would say karma whore, except for the obvious problem that this "whore" has posted anonymously.
I guess the corect term therefore is "karma slut"?
[points to posting id]
That says it all...ah well, any of the unwashed who have questions have their answer now...
need sleep...and caffeine...
"The game of life" is a program that uses an n x n matrix, rules for "survival", "reproduction" and "death", based on the number of adjacent "live" cells (haha, cells- matrices/simple organisms(!), get it? haha...oh, nm) being processed. If a cell is adjacent to a certain number (I think three usually), it spawns a new adjacent live cell in a previously unoccupied one. There is a minimum of two adjacent cells required for survival (I think...been awhile since apcs), and a cell dies due to overcrowding if all adjacent cells are live. This creates several interesting patterns, such as the glider. I've seen equilibrium reached once, as well as complete cell death.
I miss the good ol' game...
Can we get an offtopic mod for this? The issue isn't Israeli-Rest of the Region relations, its Israeli-Big American Software Monopoly relations. I don't see how discussing the merits of sucide bombings and Israel's response to said bombings has anything to do with Israel ditching Microsoft (unless you think Steve Ballmer, as religious leader of the Church of Gates, will declare a holy war in response to this) because Microsloth refused support for the official language of the Jewish state.
For one, I think this move is commendable. Whatever your stance on politics in the region, there isn't much question about Melkorsoft's idiocy in this issue. Languages should be preserved, as a record of the human story. Refusing to provide support of any language is a blatant move to selectively propogate certain tongues over others. True, in the 'internet culture' the default speech between peoples is English, and that fact is seen as a threat in and of itself to the survival of languages, esp. such as Hebrew, which is not spoken much outside of Israel other than in ceremony or in homes (correct me if I'm wrong -- I'm admittedly ignorant of things which I'd like to know more about...I just know from my personal experience that spoken Hebrew is not a common conversational mode in the US). But what about those that aren't part of the 'internet culture', that group of people who use the internet everynow and again to find useful information for school, work, or just for the hell of it? I swear I have a point in here somewhere...something about protecting languages...Ah hell, I just thought all the bickering over who's more wrong detracted from valuable bickering over Morgosofth's idiocy.
PS Any other good creative euphamisms for the Dark Enemy of the Internet?
Guess I just have to wait for it to be un-/.-ed...
But since SCO did nothing to remove the objectionable code from its own releases, or licensing that code with it's packages, and did nothing until well after it had stopped selling a Linux distrobution, it can be argued that any code they might have been able to have removed or licensed once upon a time is now GPLed, in which case there is nothing SCO can legally do, and IBM's claim that SCO is violating the GPL is valid. I'm not sure how successfully it can be argued (IANL), but it can be argued. Any lawyer types or such want to clarify?