I believe there was a time when connecting unapproved telephone equipment to the public network was quite a serious punishable offence.
Apart from nasty privacy risks to the owner, in what way is a compromised machine abusing others on the network any different?
The effort required to fix the number of infected machines is just so overwhelming that any ISP cannot cope, even if they wanted to.
Some ISPs do a valiant job, but sad to say, the vast majority of them don't appear to care this >< much about their users, and the grief they cause.
These are probably the worst from my perspective:- Vietnam, India, Pakistan, Brazil, Russia and Ukraine. Curiously, Iran appears disproportionately highly too.
If one could actually get the key, then all someone would need to do is sign a command using a serial number of MAXINT, and the botnet would be toast...
I would be very surprised if they hadn't thought of that already.
I suppose they can use a dns query to a number of short lived and deterministic domain names active for the day (though this can be defeated using superhuman efforts to preregister or block creation of those domains, if known), or query any number of bulletin boards containing encoded messages in various places. Querying BBSs is probably safer as http or https traffic blends into general traffic very well, given that users use of the web isn't unusual! It may even use google searches known to return 1 result.
The possibilities are endless, and it probably uses many methods of picking up instructions and peer lists.
The breakthrough came when the British realised that tail fins had to swivel to maintain control - elevators just couldn't cut it against the shock wave.
You are correct - any time an article appears on any mainstream blog or newssite about anything remotely related to AGW or CAGW etc, the hordes of deniers pounce to try and corrupt popular support to their twisted minority view, then move on to the next. They appear to be highly organised.
On forums that support comment voting, messages that you and I would deem to be rational and common-sense will quickly get a wildly disproportionate negative score if it appears to contain any whiff of truth supporting the reality.
Almost as if they just exist to trash the science. I can see through it, but the average Joe probably can't.
Scientists by and large are rational and analytical people, passionate about their work and motivated by discovering answers to the problems they investigate - the rewards of discovering the truth of a mechanism or process, or creating something new are intrinsic. Financial reward is very much secondary.
I suspect that they don't easily comprehend that other kinds of people don't, won't or can't see the world in the same way, that have belief systems not based on logic and are able to selectively deny evidence if it doesn't support their agenda - I guess all sides can be guilty of this to some degree, but AGW denial is getting particularly nasty, and especially sad that Republican politicians seem to be abandoning their duty and disowning GW in order to win votes.
Nature doesn't respect party divides - ask King Canute.
There are a few activists that care enough to try and counter the denialists threat, but they are outnumbered. The average guy doesn't feel as compelled to act as the sockpuppets, perhaps they are busy dealing with more immediate worries of paying the bills, but after all, their futures are also at stake, which is a teensy weensy bit more important that the short term profits of those with an interest in seeing that Humanity doesn't do the right thing and transform to a sustainable future.
It's a lump of silicon about as big as a car battery, easily handles 5MW, and has revolutionised the connection of solar/wind/wave energy to grid.
Equipment costing hundreds OR thousands dollars now replaces what used to cost hundreds OF thousands, so connecting the battery to the grid is probably one of the easiest and cheapest problems to solve.
Well, yes, planting more trees is a great idea as long as you can find land to put them on that hasn't already been converted to a golf course, palm-oil plantation or depleted pasture.
If you could make wood sink to the bottom of a lake before it is sold for building materials or firewood, it'll decay anaerobically and produce methane, which is a 21 times more effective greenhouse gas than CO2.
We should plant more and keep them living as long as possible to enjoy their beauty and benefits.
The alternative name "Vomit Comet" hints that they're well prepared for stray bodily fluids in copious quantities... besides, you get several attempts and there should always be an experienced nurse on standby eager to help out...
If I ever get the chance, I'll report back!
gzip encoding is a Good Thing and should be used wherever possible on compressible data. XML is no exception and can benefit greatly, (unless the data it contains is uncompressible and large in comprison to the XML skeleton).
For high volume traffic and SSL, then processing can be offloaded to an instream device such as jetnexus and let the web server do what it is best at.
Have to drill it out, install a huge rocket exhaust valve and pump in a *huge* amount of gas. Then have to stop its rotation so that the exhaust nozzle lies in the direction of travel at the desired reentry point and wait for a suitable time to pull the plug and run.
Assuming that enough materials could be gathered, the main obstacle would be keeping the thing aligned while outgassing to reduce its velocity from 15km/s to 100m/s to avoid burning up in the atmosphere... Nice idea though!
I don't really subscribe to end of the world scenarios, Earth will be here until the Sun swallows it up, or another star or even bigger lump of rock comes along and smashes it to bits, but even after that something will remain and life will begin again...
However we are already doing a good job of beginning to make Earth uninhabitable for a large section of its community anyway, and may become much worse and force us back to dog eat dog times - one only has to look back to the Katrina aftermath in New Orleans to see what kind of society emerges when 'normal' (or artificially restrained) society breaks down.
I can't envisage a half million tons at.2C getting very far through 4000km of molten iron:) Nice big splat though!
Let's focus on continuing to keep our home habitable, while developing new technologies to wreck^h^h^h^h^h find new habitats...:)
Zero G mining won't be required if we could nudge the asteroid back to earth, drop it somewhere useful and create a mining community. Might take a while to rebuild the infrastructure within a 300 mile radius!
Worth pointing out, that if we will have the power to deflect near Earth asteroids to avoid catastrophic collisions, then that also gives us the power to refine and target a collision to produce a multi-megaton radiation fallout-free explosion to achieve a political end with the excuse of being an "Act of God". Scary stuff...
Hey, I didn't insult anyone... I got real, and don't have to tell anyone to fuck off! We have different but equally valid realities. Faxes are not a fact of *my* life as my clients are tech savvy, I get POs as PDFs, I send invoices as PDFs, and the only papers I ever see are gas/elec bills and bank statements, though the bank is online and I get SMS notifications of transfers. I don't expect to ever lose a client through not having a fax.
It is taking a while, but I really do believe that faxes will eventually die out, having served their purpose as an enabler for change, which too many people find extraordinarily difficult to do.
I don't hate them, they served a purpose but there are better ways of communicating now that don't involve stuffing a bit of paper into a slot that was printed out from an already existing electronic copy!
I hope you'll be able to dump your fax soon too, and not lose any customers.
Fax??? I vaguely remember that word being used a couple of times in the last century, but didn't cope too well with hieroglyphics.
Why not use a phone camera and file transfer and keep the trees where they belong?
In fact all average office paperwork can be photographed and archived using a digital camera, phone or scanner, then the should-be-obsoleted paper can go for recycling/energy recovery.
Should be no need for paper/fax with proper systems in place.
Hi.. I'm the owner of the Povbench site...
I believe the benchmark.pov file that the POVRay team chose to use was intended for single machines, not clusters. There is a good minute or so of processing time duplicated on all machines to calculate photon maps, and this information is not shared.
If we subtract the time for this process, we approach something more accurate.
I would really like to make a benchmark that doesn't spend so long precalculating photon maps and light buffers etc, so we can get a time just for pure distributed processing.
However, it is a problem getting everybody to use the standard conditions, even if there is an option in the render menu to run benchmark!
This only applies in the Windows GUI version. Other platforms have to make sure all the switches are standard. I hope this can be standardized across all platforms more easily in the future.
Cheers,
Andy.
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I believe there was a time when connecting unapproved telephone equipment to the public network was quite a serious punishable offence.
Apart from nasty privacy risks to the owner, in what way is a compromised machine abusing others on the network any different?
The effort required to fix the number of infected machines is just so overwhelming that any ISP cannot cope, even if they wanted to.
Some ISPs do a valiant job, but sad to say, the vast majority of them don't appear to care this >< much about their users, and the grief they cause.
These are probably the worst from my perspective:- Vietnam, India, Pakistan, Brazil, Russia and Ukraine. Curiously, Iran appears disproportionately highly too.
If one could actually get the key, then all someone would need to do is sign a command using a serial number of MAXINT, and the botnet would be toast...
I would be very surprised if they hadn't thought of that already.
I suppose they can use a dns query to a number of short lived and deterministic domain names active for the day (though this can be defeated using superhuman efforts to preregister or block creation of those domains, if known), or query any number of bulletin boards containing encoded messages in various places. Querying BBSs is probably safer as http or https traffic blends into general traffic very well, given that users use of the web isn't unusual! It may even use google searches known to return 1 result.
The possibilities are endless, and it probably uses many methods of picking up instructions and peer lists.
The breakthrough came when the British realised that tail fins had to swivel to maintain control - elevators just couldn't cut it against the shock wave.
You are correct - any time an article appears on any mainstream blog or newssite about anything remotely related to AGW or CAGW etc, the hordes of deniers pounce to try and corrupt popular support to their twisted minority view, then move on to the next. They appear to be highly organised.
On forums that support comment voting, messages that you and I would deem to be rational and common-sense will quickly get a wildly disproportionate negative score if it appears to contain any whiff of truth supporting the reality.
Good example of this here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17126699 swamped by some recognisable WUWT followers.
Almost as if they just exist to trash the science. I can see through it, but the average Joe probably can't.
Scientists by and large are rational and analytical people, passionate about their work and motivated by discovering answers to the problems they investigate - the rewards of discovering the truth of a mechanism or process, or creating something new are intrinsic. Financial reward is very much secondary. I suspect that they don't easily comprehend that other kinds of people don't, won't or can't see the world in the same way, that have belief systems not based on logic and are able to selectively deny evidence if it doesn't support their agenda - I guess all sides can be guilty of this to some degree, but AGW denial is getting particularly nasty, and especially sad that Republican politicians seem to be abandoning their duty and disowning GW in order to win votes. Nature doesn't respect party divides - ask King Canute.
There are a few activists that care enough to try and counter the denialists threat, but they are outnumbered. The average guy doesn't feel as compelled to act as the sockpuppets, perhaps they are busy dealing with more immediate worries of paying the bills, but after all, their futures are also at stake, which is a teensy weensy bit more important that the short term profits of those with an interest in seeing that Humanity doesn't do the right thing and transform to a sustainable future.
DNFTT
One word: IGBT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulated-gate_bipolar_transistor
It's a lump of silicon about as big as a car battery, easily handles 5MW, and has revolutionised the connection of solar/wind/wave energy to grid.
Equipment costing hundreds OR thousands dollars now replaces what used to cost hundreds OF thousands, so connecting the battery to the grid is probably one of the easiest and cheapest problems to solve.
Your observation is inaccurate, we don't pretend! :-)
Well, yes, planting more trees is a great idea as long as you can find land to put them on that hasn't already been converted to a golf course, palm-oil plantation or depleted pasture.
If you could make wood sink to the bottom of a lake before it is sold for building materials or firewood, it'll decay anaerobically and produce methane, which is a 21 times more effective greenhouse gas than CO2.
We should plant more and keep them living as long as possible to enjoy their beauty and benefits.
The alternative name "Vomit Comet" hints that they're well prepared for stray bodily fluids in copious quantities... besides, you get several attempts and there should always be an experienced nurse on standby eager to help out... If I ever get the chance, I'll report back!
But he does do some simply unmissable things, like making cheese on toast in record time with LOX and a blowtorch!
Unfortunately the operator will probably always be the slowest part of the computer, unless extensive genetic modification becomes possible.
With an AMD 4200+, at least my spare cycles are BOINCing on something useful while I think about the next lines of code or whatever else I do...
Yes, I would love a Tb of Flash mem, but the problem of organising and storing backups will still grow to match developments.
especially if all at the same time with a hot key to switch screens...
gzip encoding is a Good Thing and should be used wherever possible on compressible data. XML is no exception and can benefit greatly, (unless the data it contains is uncompressible and large in comprison to the XML skeleton).
For high volume traffic and SSL, then processing can be offloaded to an instream device such as jetnexus and let the web server do what it is best at.
because the mice insisted...
Have to drill it out, install a huge rocket exhaust valve and pump in a *huge* amount of gas. Then have to stop its rotation so that the exhaust nozzle lies in the direction of travel at the desired reentry point and wait for a suitable time to pull the plug and run.
.2C getting very far through 4000km of molten iron :) Nice big splat though!
:)
Assuming that enough materials could be gathered, the main obstacle would be keeping the thing aligned while outgassing to reduce its velocity from 15km/s to 100m/s to avoid burning up in the atmosphere... Nice idea though!
I don't really subscribe to end of the world scenarios, Earth will be here until the Sun swallows it up, or another star or even bigger lump of rock comes along and smashes it to bits, but even after that something will remain and life will begin again...
However we are already doing a good job of beginning to make Earth uninhabitable for a large section of its community anyway, and may become much worse and force us back to dog eat dog times - one only has to look back to the Katrina aftermath in New Orleans to see what kind of society emerges when 'normal' (or artificially restrained) society breaks down.
I can't envisage a half million tons at
Let's focus on continuing to keep our home habitable, while developing new technologies to wreck^h^h^h^h^h find new habitats...
Zero G mining won't be required if we could nudge the asteroid back to earth, drop it somewhere useful and create a mining community. Might take a while to rebuild the infrastructure within a 300 mile radius!
Worth pointing out, that if we will have the power to deflect near Earth asteroids to avoid catastrophic collisions, then that also gives us the power to refine and target a collision to produce a multi-megaton radiation fallout-free explosion to achieve a political end with the excuse of being an "Act of God". Scary stuff...
Hey, I didn't insult anyone... I got real, and don't have to tell anyone to fuck off! We have different but equally valid realities. Faxes are not a fact of *my* life as my clients are tech savvy, I get POs as PDFs, I send invoices as PDFs, and the only papers I ever see are gas/elec bills and bank statements, though the bank is online and I get SMS notifications of transfers. I don't expect to ever lose a client through not having a fax. It is taking a while, but I really do believe that faxes will eventually die out, having served their purpose as an enabler for change, which too many people find extraordinarily difficult to do. I don't hate them, they served a purpose but there are better ways of communicating now that don't involve stuffing a bit of paper into a slot that was printed out from an already existing electronic copy! I hope you'll be able to dump your fax soon too, and not lose any customers.
Fax??? I vaguely remember that word being used a couple of times in the last century, but didn't cope too well with hieroglyphics.
Why not use a phone camera and file transfer and keep the trees where they belong?
In fact all average office paperwork can be photographed and archived using a digital camera, phone or scanner, then the should-be-obsoleted paper can go for recycling/energy recovery.
Should be no need for paper/fax with proper systems in place.
Hi.. I'm the owner of the Povbench site... I believe the benchmark.pov file that the POVRay team chose to use was intended for single machines, not clusters. There is a good minute or so of processing time duplicated on all machines to calculate photon maps, and this information is not shared. If we subtract the time for this process, we approach something more accurate. I would really like to make a benchmark that doesn't spend so long precalculating photon maps and light buffers etc, so we can get a time just for pure distributed processing. However, it is a problem getting everybody to use the standard conditions, even if there is an option in the render menu to run benchmark! This only applies in the Windows GUI version. Other platforms have to make sure all the switches are standard. I hope this can be standardized across all platforms more easily in the future. Cheers, Andy.