keywords and phrases that match users' precise searches and to write in informal, accessible language.
The article also suggests that using the name is full form, repeatedly, and using keywords in your title makes it receive a higher rank of google news.
Yahoo news is filtered by people; google news is completely automated.
From porn to religion... from the left to the right... many groups have figured out how to manipulate search results. It's life or death in the web world to optimize, It's google's responsibility if they are going to deliver news that they deliver both sides of a story.
The first POC just generates the buffer overflow crash. Interesting enough, on an unpatched system, just having the jpg on your desktop caused by explorer to crash - repeatedly. I am assuming as XP tried to generate the thumbnail. However, if viewed through a web page, I could view it fine.
I've been looking for the second POC code since yesterday. It supposedly opens a cmd prompt when the crafted jpg is viewed.
I should be scared that people actual pay attention to what I say around here. One day somebody is going to walk in and ask me about all my crazy views that I spew on slashdot.
The day somebody calls me Dr. AC, I'll hang it up.:)
If we have a higher new infection rate... it would be because we don't vaccinate. Doesn't have anything to do with antibotics or growth feeds, or hormones.
The drug resistant strains are mainly coming out of countries where the burden of disease is very high or the level of care is very low...
America is not even quoted in the article:
Strains of TB that are highly resistant to antibiotics are becoming increasingly prevalent in places like Russia, eastern Europe, and China, and only small changes are required to make these strains start spreading quickly.
I am against antibotic overuse as well... but antibotic overuse is not the cause here. The cause of TB multi-drug resistance is people not taking their medications correctly! This is the reason we do direct observed therapy... to prevent this.
and it's a pain in the ass for us physicians. The vaccine only works for 10-20 years... so how do we test you guys over here in the states to see if you still have immunity?
We can't test your arm everytime and watch you have a horrible reaction. Plus, we don't routinely immunize people here so we can use the PPD for screening. (Plus, we screwed up the immunizations over here a long time ago and actually GAVE a bunch of people TB.... so there is a natural reaction in this country not to do immunizations. Even though the immunizations are now really, really safe.)
Prisions are a huge breeding ground for TB. One of my partners just saw somebody that had baseball-sized masses growing from several sites on his body. He wasn't referred to a doctor for several months. Biopsy of these lesions showed tons of TB.
Medical care in the prisions is very sub-standard.
It is true that if you do not take your TB drugs as prescribed, you will be put into prision. Yes, America will force you to take your TB drugs... to keep you from infecting others.
However, most prisioners are in and out of jail too often to really get adequate screening for infectious diseases.
Alright, I'm a practicing lung doctor so I've got to say a little bit.
Change in the skin TB status (or PPD) suggests a recent infection with TB. Placing someone of INH for 6 to 9 months greatly decreases the risk of someone developing active TB in the future.
The amount of exposure and the potential risks for reactivation of the TB are all evaluated before INH is prescribed.
INH can cause liver problems... and avoiding alcohol is a must.
To answer the parent's other question-- Using INH for a long enough duration will not cause resistence. Dead bugs can't develop resistence.
Yes, it can survive forever.
We see people that were exposed 20-30 years ago and have reactivation when placed on steroids or chemotherapy.
In the grand scheme of things, TB may be getting worse worldwide, but here in the states it seems well controlled. We have a huge immigrant population, and I have seen on a couple cases of active TB over the last 5 years.
I come to read slashdot in between patients to get away from medicine... please quit running these medical stories. They remind me that I'm not a real geek.:)
most of the teams assumed that the world would be largely submerged in water, that the atmosphere would be far too polluted to be breathable, and energy would be scarce, b) the designs took little note of human nature or costs and c) almost all of them approached growth vertically.
Why would these guys assume that the majority of the world would be under water? Surely, I can believe that the air might be too polluted to be breathable...
However, if society can figure out how to place entire communities of people under water... certainly we can figure out how to clean some air.
Honestly, I love contests like this. We used to have them when I was in college. You are given a scenerio then you find all the potential losses and gains around this situation, you think of solutions, and then you write a detailed plan around the best solution.
The majority of the winners that I remember from my ole college days have come true. We explored internet growth, viruses, loss of fossil fuels, and such...
While that might be an excellent way to advance your personal knowledge, a bunch of torrent downloads is probably not something you want linked to your business account/computer.
$20 a month gives you a lot of knowledge... and you can write it off as a business expense.
"A telescope there would perform as well as a much larger one anywhere else on Earth. It's nearly as good as being in space", said Dr. Will Saunders of the Anglo-Australian Observatory.
Nearly as good, nearly. I am still a huge fan of Hubble... so forgive me.:)
As someone who survives on research money for a living, I am sad to see what direction funding is going. Previously, those who had tbe best ideas would get the money.
Now, he who gets the press, gets the money.
This whole article is basically a press release by this guy. I'll summarize the article for you...
"Give me money because I _think_ I can build some cool stuff."
Both of them are confusing sometimes... Both of them are popular...
Just for reference, we are talking about this O'Reilly, not this O'Reilly.
(grin)
Really though, get your boss to get you a subscription to Safari O'Reilly. You get access to any 10 O'Reilly books you want each month for less than $20. We've quit buying dead trees... and we just all use this now as our library.
They already have the structure setup to spit out tunes and news. As people get addicted to it in their car, they'll naturally want it at their desk too...
Wouldn't surprise me if they offer it for a cheap add-on to their existing service.
I think "big" and "correctly" are themselves contradictions in terms these days. Solaris is bloated, Java is bloated, and now they are producing a bloated CPU chip.
As much as I love sun, it's hard to argue with your points. Java and Sun both have some bloat... agreed. Even most main stream linux distros are bloated compared to a few years ago. However, it's hard for me to understand how a chip can have bloat? The bigger and faster and more the chip does, the better! Right?
People a few years ago were complaining because programs were too big. People don't really complain about this anymore because hard drive space has gotten so cheap. Now we usually complain about bloat for other reasons... mainly speed, usability and security.
Will cheaper, faster, bigger, and better chips help decrease this problem? Maybe, maybe not. But I don't know how it could hurt.
Okay, I am a solaris/sun fan boy. But this sounds like it was crafted by a professional commerical writer...
Ahhh... to be 38 and be this guy. President of Sun at 38 years old... what a life.
This is the silicon for our Project Niagara chip: 8 cores * 4 threads per core = a 32-way computer. On a chip. And did I mention we have silicon, and not just a JPEG file? And I saved the best for last. Are you ready? It's already running Solaris. A volume OS that eats threads for lunch, on the world's most advanced massively parallelized silicon. That's not just a box. That's what we call a system. A system built for internet workloads. Not for the expedience of a press release. And a system that gives customers yet more choice, rather than taking choice away. (And before you ask, yes, we are planning a nicer box when we ship:)
These guys deserve to Microsoft level of success...
Several of sun gurus have given us suggestions and hints at solaris section of our site. Without their early input and links from within the sun website, we would have never been as successful.
These guys are trying to do things big and correctly.
From the beginning I didn't think this was quite as bad as people had feared. The worse case scenerio is that we can only detect particles that are unique to the study area.
No matter how much dirt you pour into that system, any particles that are not common on earth would still be a very interesting finding!
"It is amazing given the amount of breach in the canister just how clean it is inside" Sevilla said. "We're not talking about great clods of dirt."
As much as they were overestimating the initial amount of damage, I think they are underestimating now. No matter how little amount of dust has entered into that system, it still has contamination. Contamination is like pregnancy. Either it is, or it isn't. "Genesis brought back a tiny sampling of the raw material of the Sun, a sample weighing no more than a few grains of salt." Likely many particles that were captured in space are similiar the particles here on earth; however, with the contamination I am not sure how you can seperate the true origin of the particles... especially when such small amounts are involved. Earth dust >>> sun dust.
If they can figure how to reverse the serial number generator, they can figure out how to block any "delete defense."
Plus, this guy better make sure to heck that he deletes on the pirates. If somebody who bought the software legally gets his/her stuff deleted, bring on the sharks... err, lawers!
In demonstrations to press and analysts, the company has shown a graphically demanding game -- a Linux version of Quake III -- running on an Apple PowerBook.
Quake, linux, and Apple--all at one time. It's like a slashdot user's nirvana.
QuickTransit fully supports accelerated 3-D graphics and about 80 percent computational performance on the main processor. It requires no user intervention: It kicks in automatically when a non-native application is launched.
20% performance hit is not all that painful even... especially the way that CPUs are ramping up all the time! I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Slashdot Mirror
keywords and phrases that match users' precise searches and to write in informal, accessible language.
The article also suggests that using the name is full form, repeatedly, and using keywords in your title makes it receive a higher rank of google news.
Yahoo news is filtered by people; google news is completely automated.
From porn to religion... from the left to the right... many groups have figured out how to manipulate search results. It's life or death in the web world to optimize, It's google's responsibility if they are going to deliver news that they deliver both sides of a story.
Sweet!
Posted exactly 5 minutes after my asking.
Thanks!
Come on guys! This is slashdot!
Where is the downloadable link to the second proof of concept code?
Here's the link to the first POC:
http://www.gulftech.org/?node=downloads
The first POC just generates the buffer overflow crash. Interesting enough, on an unpatched system, just having the jpg on your desktop caused by explorer to crash - repeatedly. I am assuming as XP tried to generate the thumbnail. However, if viewed through a web page, I could view it fine.
I've been looking for the second POC code since yesterday. It supposedly opens a cmd prompt when the crafted jpg is viewed.
AC
What a loaded question?
Would I hire a worm-writing kid? No.
Would I hire a gray-hat security genius? Absolutely.
TB or not TB, that is the consumption.
:)
To cough, to cough!
I should be scared that people actual pay attention to what I say around here. One day somebody is going to walk in and ask me about all my crazy views that I spew on slashdot.
The day somebody calls me Dr. AC, I'll hang it up.
AC
I can't even write prescriptions for myself...
:)
I can't call in sick...
I can't make jokes about people's bodies...
Why did I become a doctor anyway!??
Gesh... time to setup a playstation in the backroom.
One hundred-twenty new online games before January? That equates to 30 games per month, or over one game per day until the end of 2004.
Woop! I am totally calling in sick -- for the rest of the year.
AC
Who modded this up?
If we have a higher new infection rate... it would be because we don't vaccinate. Doesn't have anything to do with antibotics or growth feeds, or hormones.
The drug resistant strains are mainly coming out of countries where the burden of disease is very high or the level of care is very low...
America is not even quoted in the article:
Strains of TB that are highly resistant to antibiotics are becoming increasingly prevalent in places like Russia, eastern Europe, and China, and only small changes are required to make these strains start spreading quickly.
I am against antibotic overuse as well... but antibotic overuse is not the cause here. The cause of TB multi-drug resistance is people not taking their medications correctly! This is the reason we do direct observed therapy... to prevent this.
Yeah, me too.
High risk people such as health care professionals, people with HIV, or people on immunosuppression are almost always treated.
Young people and people who have recently converted their PPD are also usually treated.
Yes, this is true...
:)
and it's a pain in the ass for us physicians. The vaccine only works for 10-20 years... so how do we test you guys over here in the states to see if you still have immunity?
We can't test your arm everytime and watch you have a horrible reaction. Plus, we don't routinely immunize people here so we can use the PPD for screening. (Plus, we screwed up the immunizations over here a long time ago and actually GAVE a bunch of people TB.... so there is a natural reaction in this country not to do immunizations. Even though the immunizations are now really, really safe.)
So you guys screw it up for the rest of us!
Mostly false...
Prisions are a huge breeding ground for TB. One of my partners just saw somebody that had baseball-sized masses growing from several sites on his body. He wasn't referred to a doctor for several months. Biopsy of these lesions showed tons of TB.
Medical care in the prisions is very sub-standard.
It is true that if you do not take your TB drugs as prescribed, you will be put into prision. Yes, America will force you to take your TB drugs... to keep you from infecting others.
However, most prisioners are in and out of jail too often to really get adequate screening for infectious diseases.
AC
Alright, I'm a practicing lung doctor so I've got to say a little bit.
:)
Change in the skin TB status (or PPD) suggests a recent infection with TB. Placing someone of INH for 6 to 9 months greatly decreases the risk of someone developing active TB in the future.
The amount of exposure and the potential risks for reactivation of the TB are all evaluated before INH is prescribed.
INH can cause liver problems... and avoiding alcohol is a must.
To answer the parent's other question--
Using INH for a long enough duration will not cause resistence. Dead bugs can't develop resistence.
Yes, it can survive forever.
We see people that were exposed 20-30 years ago and have reactivation when placed on steroids or chemotherapy.
In the grand scheme of things, TB may be getting worse worldwide, but here in the states it seems well controlled. We have a huge immigrant population, and I have seen on a couple cases of active TB over the last 5 years.
I come to read slashdot in between patients to get away from medicine... please quit running these medical stories. They remind me that I'm not a real geek.
AC
Why did I think of this?
You would only have to classify each message once by a person... and then have all messages like that blocked. Very sweet. Very India?
I am not sure I want somebody reading through all my email though...
most of the teams assumed that the world would be largely submerged in water, that the atmosphere would be far too polluted to be breathable, and energy would be scarce, b) the designs took little note of human nature or costs and c) almost all of them approached growth vertically.
Why would these guys assume that the majority of the world would be under water? Surely, I can believe that the air might be too polluted to be breathable...
However, if society can figure out how to place entire communities of people under water... certainly we can figure out how to clean some air.
Honestly, I love contests like this. We used to have them when I was in college. You are given a scenerio then you find all the potential losses and gains around this situation, you think of solutions, and then you write a detailed plan around the best solution.
The majority of the winners that I remember from my ole college days have come true. We explored internet growth, viruses, loss of fossil fuels, and such...
Oh, those were the days.
While that might be an excellent way to advance your personal knowledge, a bunch of torrent downloads is probably not something you want linked to your business account/computer.
$20 a month gives you a lot of knowledge... and you can write it off as a business expense.
"A telescope there would perform as well as a much larger one anywhere else on Earth. It's nearly as good as being in space", said Dr. Will Saunders of the Anglo-Australian Observatory.
:)
Nearly as good, nearly. I am still a huge fan of Hubble... so forgive me.
As someone who survives on research money for a living, I am sad to see what direction funding is going. Previously, those who had tbe best ideas would get the money.
Now, he who gets the press, gets the money.
This whole article is basically a press release by this guy. I'll summarize the article for you...
"Give me money because I _think_ I can build some cool stuff."
Both of them are confusing sometimes...
Both of them are popular...
Just for reference, we are talking about this O'Reilly, not this O'Reilly.
(grin)
Really though, get your boss to get you a subscription to Safari O'Reilly. You get access to any 10 O'Reilly books you want each month for less than $20. We've quit buying dead trees... and we just all use this now as our library.
It makes perfect sense (cents?)
They already have the structure setup to spit out tunes and news. As people get addicted to it in their car, they'll naturally want it at their desk too...
Wouldn't surprise me if they offer it for a cheap add-on to their existing service.
These translate into image quality and clarity that could previously viewed only on CRT (cathode ray tube) displays.
Even after all these years, CRT is still the standard. Amazing...
This certainly makes money sense for Sun... and I can't believe they didn't do this long ago.
If you give away the software, you can sell the service (ie RedHat)
If you give away the software, you will sell more hardware (ie IBM)
Sun obviously can't release the protected software of other companies... however, I do bet that they transition over to non-proprietary in the future.
They can't do everything at once... but at least it's a start in the right direction.
I think "big" and "correctly" are themselves contradictions in terms these days. Solaris is bloated, Java is bloated, and now they are producing a bloated CPU chip.
As much as I love sun, it's hard to argue with your points. Java and Sun both have some bloat... agreed. Even most main stream linux distros are bloated compared to a few years ago. However, it's hard for me to understand how a chip can have bloat? The bigger and faster and more the chip does, the better! Right?
People a few years ago were complaining because programs were too big. People don't really complain about this anymore because hard drive space has gotten so cheap. Now we usually complain about bloat for other reasons... mainly speed, usability and security.
Will cheaper, faster, bigger, and better chips help decrease this problem? Maybe, maybe not. But I don't know how it could hurt.
Okay, I am a solaris/sun fan boy. But this sounds like it was crafted by a professional commerical writer...
:)
Ahhh... to be 38 and be this guy. President of Sun at 38 years old... what a life.
This is the silicon for our Project Niagara chip: 8 cores * 4 threads per core = a 32-way computer. On a chip.
And did I mention we have silicon, and not just a JPEG file?
And I saved the best for last. Are you ready?
It's already running Solaris. A volume OS that eats threads for lunch, on the world's most advanced massively parallelized silicon.
That's not just a box.
That's what we call a system. A system built for internet workloads. Not for the expedience of a press release. And a system that gives customers yet more choice, rather than taking choice away.
(And before you ask, yes, we are planning a nicer box when we ship
These guys deserve to Microsoft level of success...
Several of sun gurus have given us suggestions and hints at solaris section of our site. Without their early input and links from within the sun website, we would have never been as successful.
These guys are trying to do things big and correctly.
From the beginning I didn't think this was quite as bad as people had feared. The worse case scenerio is that we can only detect particles that are unique to the study area.
No matter how much dirt you pour into that system, any particles that are not common on earth would still be a very interesting finding!
"It is amazing given the amount of breach in the canister just how clean it is inside" Sevilla said. "We're not talking about great clods of dirt."
As much as they were overestimating the initial amount of damage, I think they are underestimating now. No matter how little amount of dust has entered into that system, it still has contamination. Contamination is like pregnancy. Either it is, or it isn't. "Genesis brought back a tiny sampling of the raw material of the Sun, a sample weighing no more than a few grains of salt." Likely many particles that were captured in space are similiar the particles here on earth; however, with the contamination I am not sure how you can seperate the true origin of the particles... especially when such small amounts are involved. Earth dust >>> sun dust.
Can you tell which of these are covered with space particles and which are covered with space dirt?
My thoughts...
If they can figure how to reverse the serial number generator, they can figure out how to block any "delete defense."
Plus, this guy better make sure to heck that he deletes on the pirates. If somebody who bought the software legally gets his/her stuff deleted, bring on the sharks... err, lawers!
AC
In demonstrations to press and analysts, the company has shown a graphically demanding game -- a Linux version of Quake III -- running on an Apple PowerBook.
Quake, linux, and Apple--all at one time. It's like a slashdot user's nirvana.
QuickTransit fully supports accelerated 3-D graphics and about 80 percent computational performance on the main processor. It requires no user intervention: It kicks in automatically when a non-native application is launched.
20% performance hit is not all that painful even... especially the way that CPUs are ramping up all the time! I'll keep my fingers crossed.