'cos it's mostly true. 1. make deal with cash-strapped site owner 2. post inflammatory story on./, linking to said site 3. wait for./ rabbibunnies to flock to linked site 4. PROFIT!
famd is a file alteration monitoring daemon. Gets installed by default with Gnome in latter-day distros, for some weird reason. Doesn't do much good, but may be useful as part of an IDS, or, ironically, of a good rootkit.
Portmap turns RPC (Remote Procedure Call) program numbers into DARPA protocol port numbers. It must be running in order to make RPC calls. Services that use RPC include NFS (used by Samba, for example). This could also be part of a rootkit, since RPC == remote procedure calls.
So, try to remember what you've installed lately that has these things as dependencies. Failing that, take the machine offline and go all forensic on its A55
I sometimes (rarely) wish the touching thing would be an issue in other parts of the world. The time when someone slaps me on the back w/out notice 'cos I've been politely ignoring three e-mails an a phonecall from the someone in the space of five minutes is one of those times:). I swear that someday I'm just gonna respond with a stiff backhander punch, just to make a point.
Try getting an actual job. Such "addictions" are usually the refuge of the under-worked and the overly-bored. I should know. I work in a seasonal business, and in off-peak season I tend to acquire all sorts of habits - all easily broken when the pedal hits the metal again.
I strongly disagree. The A- and H- bombs (as tools of war) share a very unpleasant characteristic: they are not usable in anything less than all-out, civilisation-ending conflict, due to the "logic" of nuclear escalation.
This characteristic is conspicuously absent from the tactical usage requirements of current and/or planned autonomous weapons.
Do not expect restraint to be exercised in the use of weapons whose effects (including political ones) can be very precisely controlled.
I second that. However, given that the/. is declaredly US-centric, being modded a troll for supporting any other point of view then one of the two officially accepted (dem and rep, namely) is not surprising. It's the equivalent of being labeled a "terrorist/terrorist sympathizer" in the US society at large. I, for one, am sitting on the edge of my seat in anticipation of the next McCarthy era (or should I say, "the Gonzales Era"?).
All due respect to your uber-slashdotter 3-digit number, but may I suggest that a better way to do that would be to actually encourage parents to educate, rather than police, their offspring.
Also, the less-obvious aspect of this initiative (subsidized, in-depth buying habits surveys on a crucial demographic which was until now pretty hard to monitor, given that parents buy most of their kids' food, and there's no telling wether the brats actually love the stuff).
"IP6 adoption would probably just make folks buy home routers all over again". Laughable. With such an enormous adress space, IP's will commodify in no time flat, thus making the "router" concept irrelevant for all but a handful of applications, along with all of the "advanced features" of firewall boxes nowadays, which mainly deal with NAT anyway. Get real. When/if IPv6 comes, you'll have no reason whatsoever to continue buying stuff from Juniper&co.
And Juniper Networks is pushing the idea that IPv6 is not on anybody's agenda because sell routers, NAT boxes and associated services. A severely restricted adress space is what they need to continue to do so. This is just an attempt on their part to establish/enforce a perception that IPv6 is not needed/wanted. It may have misfired, though.
In short: 1.Yes. 2.Because there aren't any. You have to replace the whole core. 3.Yes and no. Potential and existing nuclear-armed enemies of the US must be convinced that the US arsenal is intact, and capable of a response or first strike, (as the case may be) *in any circumstances whatsoever*.
Self-importance is not quite the thing, here. More like, a fledging attempt at a critique of game design as if it were a form of art. Critical attempts always end up being self-referencing. The thing makes for good reading, even if one or two of the critics seem way off the deep end.
Ahem. Hashes are most commonly used to store and check passwords. A string of garbage that hashes to your password hash will be accepted as the real thing by a computer authenticating you.
"In poor countries an entire village will save up to buy a radio or tv. Entertainment is something you're willing to eat less for a few weeks for."
Get a clue. Those people buy a tv so they can get a few hours' advance notice on floods, and news about the latest aid programs. Entertainment is a side benefit to them.
"Do you live in a little one room shack with a black and white portable TV and a Lindows box from Walmart?"
Actually, no. I don't own a tv (ever since tv tuner cards were invented) and my linux box was built from parts scrounged from old machines my former employer was kind enough to trash.
"Honestly, if Coke releases a new soda, how are you going to find out about it if they don't advertise?"
I won't lose any sleep if I don't find out about it.
"If its revolutionary it has no competitors (Well, more likely than not), and I'm sure as hell gonna spend a lot to advertise it."
No, you won't, 'cause as soon as you make something really revolutionary the media will be trampling all over your front lawn within the hour, like they did when Edison invented the phonograph.
"Only other two ways I can think of is perhaps stumbling upon it in a store or word of mouth."
Bo11ocks. Ever heard of Gmail? Thought so.
Ahem. I am not a physicist, but I suspect the gravity pull of planets may well be the counterforce you need. Of course, you'd need a sail that's capable of pulling against it (i.e huge)
"Just how the hell are they going to lock up a Linux notebook with DRM?"
Ahem. Pretty easily, in fact even easier than Winblows. By providing a tweaked kernel, with support for NX and some DRM scheme, that loads from a cryptographically hardened Linux bios. What am I missing?
Griefing and farming can be easily solved by diminishing the rewards players get from attacking characters/monsters/npc's that are lower in level than themselves. With items it's easiest: make them get damaged/broken in combat with cash, make it un-stealable, with xp from PvP kills, make it a negative bonus if foe is much lower in skills/stats. There.
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'cos it's mostly true. ./, linking to said site ./ rabbibunnies to flock to linked site
1. make deal with cash-strapped site owner
2. post inflammatory story on
3. wait for
4. PROFIT!
No such thing as inexplicably. Stories get killed because.
famd is a file alteration monitoring daemon. Gets installed by default with Gnome in latter-day distros, for some weird reason. Doesn't do much good, but may be useful as part of an IDS, or, ironically, of a good rootkit.
Portmap turns RPC (Remote Procedure Call) program numbers into DARPA protocol port numbers. It must be running in order to make RPC calls. Services that use RPC include NFS (used by Samba, for example). This could also be part of a rootkit, since RPC == remote procedure calls.
So, try to remember what you've installed lately that has these things as dependencies. Failing that, take the machine offline and go all forensic on its A55
You know what they say ... if you can't beat them ... embrace and extend.
I sometimes (rarely) wish the touching thing would be an issue in other parts of the world. The time when someone slaps me on the back w/out notice 'cos I've been politely ignoring three e-mails an a phonecall from the someone in the space of five minutes is one of those times :). I swear that someday I'm just gonna respond with a stiff backhander punch, just to make a point.
AP or Reuters? lol.
Try getting an actual job. Such "addictions" are usually the refuge of the under-worked and the overly-bored. I should know. I work in a seasonal business, and in off-peak season I tend to acquire all sorts of habits - all easily broken when the pedal hits the metal again.
$Subj. Oh, And why should I care? /. editors, please hook up with a clue supplier. This article is nothing if not flamebait. Pah.
I strongly disagree. The A- and H- bombs (as tools of war) share a very unpleasant characteristic: they are not usable in anything less than all-out, civilisation-ending conflict, due to the "logic" of nuclear escalation. This characteristic is conspicuously absent from the tactical usage requirements of current and/or planned autonomous weapons. Do not expect restraint to be exercised in the use of weapons whose effects (including political ones) can be very precisely controlled.
Bad newsday, or what?
I second that. However, given that the /. is declaredly US-centric, being modded a troll for supporting any other point of view then one of the two officially accepted (dem and rep, namely) is not surprising. It's the equivalent of being labeled a "terrorist/terrorist sympathizer" in the US society at large. I, for one, am sitting on the edge of my seat in anticipation of the next McCarthy era (or should I say, "the Gonzales Era"?).
All due respect to your uber-slashdotter 3-digit number, but may I suggest that a better way to do that would be to actually encourage parents to educate, rather than police, their offspring. Also, the less-obvious aspect of this initiative (subsidized, in-depth buying habits surveys on a crucial demographic which was until now pretty hard to monitor, given that parents buy most of their kids' food, and there's no telling wether the brats actually love the stuff).
I'd call the parent post a troll, but it ain't. The real troll is the dimwit who modded the parent "insightful".
"IP6 adoption would probably just make folks buy home routers all over again". Laughable. With such an enormous adress space, IP's will commodify in no time flat, thus making the "router" concept irrelevant for all but a handful of applications, along with all of the "advanced features" of firewall boxes nowadays, which mainly deal with NAT anyway. Get real. When/if IPv6 comes, you'll have no reason whatsoever to continue buying stuff from Juniper&co.
And Juniper Networks is pushing the idea that IPv6 is not on anybody's agenda because sell routers, NAT boxes and associated services. A severely restricted adress space is what they need to continue to do so. This is just an attempt on their part to establish/enforce a perception that IPv6 is not needed/wanted. It may have misfired, though.
In short:
1.Yes.
2.Because there aren't any. You have to replace the
whole core.
3.Yes and no. Potential and existing nuclear-armed enemies of the US must be convinced that the US arsenal is intact, and capable of a response or first strike, (as the case may be) *in any circumstances whatsoever*.
Self-importance is not quite the thing, here. More like, a fledging attempt at a critique of game design as if it were a form of art. Critical attempts always end up being self-referencing. The thing makes for good reading, even if one or two of the critics seem way off the deep end.
Moon dust covering stuff? What would really be cool is if people would finally get it about the moon having no atmosphere...
Ahem. Hashes are most commonly used to store and check passwords. A string of garbage that hashes to your password hash will be accepted as the real thing by a computer authenticating you.
"In poor countries an entire village will save up to buy a radio or tv. Entertainment is something you're willing to eat less for a few weeks for." Get a clue. Those people buy a tv so they can get a few hours' advance notice on floods, and news about the latest aid programs. Entertainment is a side benefit to them.
"Do you live in a little one room shack with a black and white portable TV and a Lindows box from Walmart?" Actually, no. I don't own a tv (ever since tv tuner cards were invented) and my linux box was built from parts scrounged from old machines my former employer was kind enough to trash. "Honestly, if Coke releases a new soda, how are you going to find out about it if they don't advertise?" I won't lose any sleep if I don't find out about it. "If its revolutionary it has no competitors (Well, more likely than not), and I'm sure as hell gonna spend a lot to advertise it." No, you won't, 'cause as soon as you make something really revolutionary the media will be trampling all over your front lawn within the hour, like they did when Edison invented the phonograph. "Only other two ways I can think of is perhaps stumbling upon it in a store or word of mouth." Bo11ocks. Ever heard of Gmail? Thought so.
Ahem. I am not a physicist, but I suspect the gravity pull of planets may well be the counterforce you need. Of course, you'd need a sail that's capable of pulling against it (i.e huge)
"Just how the hell are they going to lock up a Linux notebook with DRM?" Ahem. Pretty easily, in fact even easier than Winblows. By providing a tweaked kernel, with support for NX and some DRM scheme, that loads from a cryptographically hardened Linux bios. What am I missing?
Griefing and farming can be easily solved by diminishing the rewards players get from attacking characters/monsters/npc's that are lower in level than themselves. With items it's easiest: make them get damaged/broken in combat with cash, make it un-stealable, with xp from PvP kills, make it a negative bonus if foe is much lower in skills/stats. There.
It ain't no test, just the usual amount of freedom of movement Dell grant to their partners. Don't look for this to propagate in a top-down manner.