Perhaps before impugning integrity you could simply ask the question? We don't have any deal with the book sellers, beyond the affiliateship.
Sorry for the slam. I just note that most places that are dedicated to book reviews have both good and bad - more slanted towards "bad". I was curious as to why that was. I wasn't intending to question your integrity.
When was the last time slashdot posted a BAD book review? I mean, comeon.. most sites that do this kind of thing have both good and bad reviews... like movie critics. When are we going to see a "zero star" on slashdot - something so god-awfully bad you want to go read it just to see how bad gets (the same affliction that made me see Army of Darkness three times *g*).
At the risk of being flamed to a crisp, I'm going to go out on a limb and state that the reason for this is because slashdot has deals with book sellers... bad reviews don't sell books.. and since slashdot as a profit-making entity is probably pretty close to break-even, every dollar counts. "Journalistic integrity" anyone? *grumble*
NY times runs an article on deep linking... which requires registration to view. Anyone else find this ironic?
Maybe the solution all these up-tight corporate sites (like the NY Times) will be to make even more obnoxious use of cookies, http referer values and more invasive authentication to "protect us".
Well.. better login to slashdot so I can post this...
If you kill ALL the bandwidth - with packets, then there is nothing the target can do. NOTHING. Nothing whatsoever.
If. If your ISP has more bandwidth than the attack and you set the border routers to drop the traffic, you should survive. Yahoo had enough bandwidth... they just hadn't configured their routers correctly.:(
As to the 'net being more fragile... well, yes.. a few bad BGP advertisements would take care of the whole eastern seaboard. Your point?
Depends. Considering 80% of your intrusions won't come from hackers, but disgruntled employees, maybe the better question should be "Have I kept my mouth shut when talking to my peers about this?" Script kiddie attempts do little damage for a prepared system administrator - a good backup, a contingency plan, and knowledge can take care of everything up to, and including, the little DDoS that happened to yahoo.com, ebay.com, and the other "dot coms". There was no reason Yahoo should have been down more than about 30 minutes - they had the equipment to handle the attacks.. but it was sitting in a storage closet unplugged. So stop worrying about outside attacks, and be more cost effective: put a firewall between Finances/HR and the rest of the organization. You DID install managed switches, didn't you?
Umm, Richochet uses CELLs.. this setup would basically create massive problems for anyone else wanting to use the airport. 'tis better to get a larger frequency spectrum and break it up into a honey-comb like arrangement with land-lines and/or relay-frequencies. Read up on cell phone technology.. it's effectively what you'd need to do for a wireless MAN.
Hmm.. I should have clarified. "Current state of the art in AI" might have been more clear. The day we have *real* AI is probably not the day it's asked to play a game of Red Alert....:)
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Well, it's bound to be asked by someone, might as well be me.
If you've ever played a game like Red Alert or another RTS (real time strategy) game, you'll know that the AI is woefully lacking in all of these games. Is it feasible on current hardware to make AI intelligent? What are the tradeoffs? If I wanted to create a game that had AI on par with a sophisticated human, where could I start looking (books, reviews, lectures, people.. I'll take anything) ?
It would depend largely on whether admins have control over what is hosted, or if the system employs push-technology. If it's push instead of pull-based, you're right - and the only solution there is to have "post cancellations" similar to Usenet. If it's pull, the admins can explicitly declare what they will, and will not, host.. as well as maximum/minimum filesizes, etc.
It's a design decision.. but an EXCELLENT question.
How do you plan on overcoming the distribution of servers? This is the core problem of any system, and the only way I could think of was to use the MBone network.
Some background about this - A network dedicated to preventing any one entity from shutting it down (such a network would naturally be a target for legal action) needs to have a decentralized yet easy to access repository of information. Since the volume of information would quickly rise beyond the point of any one system to host it, a method needs to be created to redirect clients/queries to system(s) which have the material. Think of it as a super-DNS system similar to WINS resolution (for you NT/samba people).
The central problem lies in TCP/IP - it's a peer, or point-to-point, protocol on the 'net at large. you can't broadcast to 255.255.255.255 and expect it to go everywhere. So an abstraction layer is required to give broadcast functionality to the network.. via TCP and UDP. Very difficult without a centralized server to host it.
Why is a centralized server bad? Simple: it has a complete record of who has what.. and more importantly, where they are. The MPAA or any other organization could seize the "browse master" and then go after each mirror site. So any network which wants to stay alive must be decentralized.
My question is real simple: how do you intend to accomplish decentralization and maintain network integrity?
P.S. I've given this idea alot of thought and was considering launching an effort. Glad to see somebody else already has. If I can find the time, you may see my e-mail appear in the dev list. =)
And why is adolescent poetry any more of an offense to free speech than code? I think it's extremely arrogant that we think our source is somehow better than poetry - even bad poetry.
Free speech is free speech. Whether you want to give a speech about free beer, free software, free sex.. racial/hate propaganda or manifestos.. it's all the same. It is communication.
ANY communication should be protected under free speech, whether it's e-mail, source, executable code.. if it can be communicated, it should be protected (if the author wills it). Information NEEDS to be free for a society to survive in the so-called "information age".
Given a recent controversy on another thread, it's obvious I'm not a lawyer.. I will go out on a limb though and state that if the law is not in accord with the will of the people.. it should be altered or abolished. Geeks are people too. We have rights. I think we ought to use them - if the DMCA is getting in the way of us expressing ourselves, I say we sidestep it, ignore it, practice civil disobedience, or overturn it. IANAL but I AM pissed.
Before everyone shouts "wuzzah! DeCSS is free" I'd like to remind you the judge considered DeCSS a mechanism for piracy.. not a tool to promote interoperability.
What this means is that while code is speech.. the compiled product is still a tool. If I quote you on something, that's fair use. How many people would like to explain that I just "quoted" half the windows source for, uhh, demonstrative purposes?
Since the compiled product is a TOOL and not a vehicle for free speech, the judge can still keep DeCSS illegal. HOWEVER, I'd be willing to bet that distribution of the SOURCE is now legal.. but compiling it and using it is NOT.
Okay, I'll throw this out. We thought it'd be an interesting experiment in GA to see if it could take an input n and give me an output p where n is the number of primes since 0. So, 1,2,3,5,7,9,11,13.. 13 would be the 7th value. So we plug 7 into the algo and get 13 out of it.
The program basically creates a string of random math which means nothing and then starts mutating them. It feeds about 30 primes plus their offsets in and then averages how far each one was off. When the algorithm reaches a 0% deviation, that means we solved the problem. His program got to 0.000?? - ask him for the algo it used.
The damn thing's output is ugly as sin though.. well.. actually ugly as sine *cough*.. but it ran out of memory to hold the gene pool and basically swapped the machine it was running on to hell. That's why we need more RAM.:(
As to why such an algorithm would be useful.. I thought that since people basically brute-force through X numbers and run fast-fourier transforms and what-not on them we thought it would be nice if you could compress the keyspace to a pitifully small number. a 1000-bit keyspace now only has maybe 16 bits of keyspace. And because of how primes work... a 10000-bit keyspace might only have 20 bits of keyspace now. Kinda makes using large keys pointless then and puts us back on the fast track to using OTP.
I have. I did some research. It's frighteningly common and there have been books published on it. Research out the Salem witch hunts some time - a small tightly knit community developed a few deviants in the group.. and the whole town came unglued. It's a common theme.. in any small group of people if somebody isn't normalized to that group the whole fabric of things come undone.
Incase you were wondering how they plan on making a profit off this, I have a solution for them - we should buy it. Yes, and put a bunch of servers in Mir. Think about it - if you mount a few satellites up there and put some linux and solaris boxen up there and give it an internet feed, you've got yourself an untouchable censor-proof project.. just build a little transmitter and you can download anything any government ever censored.
Major news would be an algorithm that ran in linear time.
ask this guy about linear solving. It was my idea, but he's got one that's pretty fscking close to being able to predict primes in linear time. I just wish we had enough memory.. we got to a deviation of less than 0.0000?? per thousand..:( I think we need a 256MB chip to let the tree fully 'bloom'.. but ask him.. he knows how the algo works better than I.
Isn't this the very same algorithm USB speakers over the wire so the MPAA could ensure end-to-end encryption? The same algorithm that would be used for Intel's wonderful monitors that encrypt the output?
Isn't it about time the Apache project relocated to a country not a member of the WIPO?:)
Alittle OT, but surely you recognize that IQ is a highly subjective test that hardly even *begins* to explain intelligence other that visual/spatial abilities?
As to being deviant.. they are mathematically correct... with an IQ of 160 you're, what, 5 standard deviations to the right..? Not that I'm complaining.. I've had similar problems... I can swallow entire books in a day.. my teacher refused to give me extra credit for reading long books after I read a 700 page report and gained so much in extra credit that my book report simply read: "Read the book. Interesting, I'd recommend it. It's 700+ pages long. Now give me an A." In 6th grade, it's apparently not expected people will read more than 250...:)
Anyway... as to "cream of society".. keep in mind that society in general wants cute but dumb girls and hunky CEOs for guys ala hollywood style. The idea of some frazzled engineer building satellites somehow doesn't strike them as the creme de creme of their world.
Just giving you a much needed reality-check and ego deflation. That'll be $6.50 plus tip.;)
The AC that flamed you is a good example of why it hurts to be a student.
Part of my high school "career" dealt specifically with overcoming people like that - they have nothing constructive to say. Anyway, I'm 20 now and I had to graduate with a GED - high school towards the end was going straight to hell... 2 arrests in as many weeks, public protests, leafleting of the building.. this was in a conservative town of 10k out in Wisconsin.. middle-class bible-loving people. They were outraged, indignant, some of THEM were violent. The police were of similar composition - they were tired of the whole debatacle.. they just wanted me to leave.
Believe me... I have an intimate understanding of how and why these things happen. Most people thing that these kids just fall off the face of the earth after high school.. that they don't exist in the "Real World". We do. But we don't talk about those experiences.. while they taught us alot about how the world works and forever redefined the true definition of freedom (which is that true freedom can only exist in a place where it is safe to be unpopular) is also a chapter in our lives that we would rather leave closed. It's emotionally devastating.. and it is often linked to real physical ailments like depression and social anxiety. I couldn't.. and still can't.. deal with some of the things that happened to me. It's very embarassing being a male and having to ask for help about stuff like this... I find it as no suprise many people don't ask for help.. and die lonely and depressed.. it is truly the hardest battle of one's life.. and to go through it without even understanding why.. at that age.. my god..
It's a truly sad state of affairs.. but in a democracy people often forget that the mob makes the rules; the majority can often have the wrong opinion of what needs to be done. The result is a vicious circle that eats away at itself.. and it's citizens.
I'll keep it short and sweet - my middle and high school years were a testament to how bad things can go wrong in public education.
The root cause of this is remarkably simple: standardized education hits the middle of the bell-curve and ignores, or is actively hostile to, any more than a standard deviation or so out. That is to say public education satisfies it's demands for about 69-78% of the population. For the rest, however, it's living hell.
Many kids who go through this become depressed, suicidal, despondent, their grades falter, peer relationships become unstable or non-existant.. all the symptoms of a person under high stress. What you are proposing to do will not help these children. All the program will do is associate yet another label to a problem nobody wants to address.
This background was necessary to give you a framework in which to see where I'm coming from with my question. My question is, why are you punishing these kids for being different?
I'll be straight forward - every backup program I've tried either is tape-only, or supports alternative media in a very poor fashion. Dump, for example, doesn't work with multi-session CDs.. nor as far as I can tell does anything else. tar works fine except it duplicates hardlinks. For somebody who uses hardlinks ALOT for both security and file management reasons.. this is a serious bummer. Many backup programs don't properly handle UNIX holes (double indirect blocks, I believe is the technical definition).
In short, for a backup scheme to be effective, it needs to get down and dirty with the filesystem - abstraction layers invariably lose performance (which in this case is defined by backup speed and how much tape is required).
The other problem is an incredible black hole of documentation. I've gone through everything at freshmeat, and none of them met my criterion of being able to do multi-level backups and could span volumes of variable size. These two criterion aren't exactly difficult to satisfy in the Windows world or even commercial UNIXes, but for linux OSS projects, it was nearly impossible to find it.
The list goes on. I hope this book can provide step-by-step documentation for setting up atleast ONE backup program. AMANDA I hear is nice, but when I downloaded the distribution.. I couldn't make heads or tails of it. This is coming from a guy who wasn't phased when setting up procmail recipes and getting Sendmail working in, uhh, unusual configurations.
That's my $0.02. In short, linux offerings are limited. People focus on the more glamorous things like kernel development or creating a GUI.. but I could really go for the basics - like an easy to use CLI-based backup program that has a decent feature set.
Man, talk about being left in the dark. I had no idea something like Evolution was in the works. Slashdot.. you're supposed to keep me up to date on these kinds of things... I had to wait until *now* to find out about it? *irk* if I had wanted out of date news I'd read Time.:(
Comeon guys, get with it! News for nerds. Evolution is definately news. Why'd I have to wait this long to hear about it!?
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Sorry for the slam. I just note that most places that are dedicated to book reviews have both good and bad - more slanted towards "bad". I was curious as to why that was. I wasn't intending to question your integrity.
At the risk of being flamed to a crisp, I'm going to go out on a limb and state that the reason for this is because slashdot has deals with book sellers... bad reviews don't sell books.. and since slashdot as a profit-making entity is probably pretty close to break-even, every dollar counts. "Journalistic integrity" anyone? *grumble*
Maybe the solution all these up-tight corporate sites (like the NY Times) will be to make even more obnoxious use of cookies, http referer values and more invasive authentication to "protect us".
Well.. better login to slashdot so I can post this...
If. If your ISP has more bandwidth than the attack and you set the border routers to drop the traffic, you should survive. Yahoo had enough bandwidth... they just hadn't configured their routers correctly. :(
As to the 'net being more fragile... well, yes.. a few bad BGP advertisements would take care of the whole eastern seaboard. Your point?
...why does that one look like it's pouring hot grits down it's pants?
Depends. Considering 80% of your intrusions won't come from hackers, but disgruntled employees, maybe the better question should be "Have I kept my mouth shut when talking to my peers about this?" Script kiddie attempts do little damage for a prepared system administrator - a good backup, a contingency plan, and knowledge can take care of everything up to, and including, the little DDoS that happened to yahoo.com, ebay.com, and the other "dot coms". There was no reason Yahoo should have been down more than about 30 minutes - they had the equipment to handle the attacks.. but it was sitting in a storage closet unplugged. So stop worrying about outside attacks, and be more cost effective: put a firewall between Finances/HR and the rest of the organization. You DID install managed switches, didn't you?
Umm, Richochet uses CELLs.. this setup would basically create massive problems for anyone else wanting to use the airport. 'tis better to get a larger frequency spectrum and break it up into a honey-comb like arrangement with land-lines and/or relay-frequencies. Read up on cell phone technology.. it's effectively what you'd need to do for a wireless MAN.
Hmm.. I should have clarified. "Current state of the art in AI" might have been more clear. The day we have *real* AI is probably not the day it's asked to play a game of Red Alert.... :)
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If you've ever played a game like Red Alert or another RTS (real time strategy) game, you'll know that the AI is woefully lacking in all of these games. Is it feasible on current hardware to make AI intelligent? What are the tradeoffs? If I wanted to create a game that had AI on par with a sophisticated human, where could I start looking (books, reviews, lectures, people.. I'll take anything) ?
It's a design decision.. but an EXCELLENT question.
Some background about this - A network dedicated to preventing any one entity from shutting it down (such a network would naturally be a target for legal action) needs to have a decentralized yet easy to access repository of information. Since the volume of information would quickly rise beyond the point of any one system to host it, a method needs to be created to redirect clients/queries to system(s) which have the material. Think of it as a super-DNS system similar to WINS resolution (for you NT/samba people).
The central problem lies in TCP/IP - it's a peer, or point-to-point, protocol on the 'net at large. you can't broadcast to 255.255.255.255 and expect it to go everywhere. So an abstraction layer is required to give broadcast functionality to the network.. via TCP and UDP. Very difficult without a centralized server to host it.
Why is a centralized server bad? Simple: it has a complete record of who has what.. and more importantly, where they are. The MPAA or any other organization could seize the "browse master" and then go after each mirror site. So any network which wants to stay alive must be decentralized.
My question is real simple: how do you intend to accomplish decentralization and maintain network integrity?
P.S. I've given this idea alot of thought and was considering launching an effort. Glad to see somebody else already has. If I can find the time, you may see my e-mail appear in the dev list. =)
Free speech is free speech. Whether you want to give a speech about free beer, free software, free sex.. racial/hate propaganda or manifestos.. it's all the same. It is communication.
ANY communication should be protected under free speech, whether it's e-mail, source, executable code.. if it can be communicated, it should be protected (if the author wills it). Information NEEDS to be free for a society to survive in the so-called "information age".
Given a recent controversy on another thread, it's obvious I'm not a lawyer.. I will go out on a limb though and state that if the law is not in accord with the will of the people.. it should be altered or abolished. Geeks are people too. We have rights. I think we ought to use them - if the DMCA is getting in the way of us expressing ourselves, I say we sidestep it, ignore it, practice civil disobedience, or overturn it. IANAL but I AM pissed.
What this means is that while code is speech.. the compiled product is still a tool. If I quote you on something, that's fair use. How many people would like to explain that I just "quoted" half the windows source for, uhh, demonstrative purposes?
Since the compiled product is a TOOL and not a vehicle for free speech, the judge can still keep DeCSS illegal. HOWEVER, I'd be willing to bet that distribution of the SOURCE is now legal.. but compiling it and using it is NOT.
However, IANAL, I just play one on slashdot. ;)
Try this. I originally heard of it off the ReiserFS FAQ page... never used it, but it's worth a shot.
The program basically creates a string of random math which means nothing and then starts mutating them. It feeds about 30 primes plus their offsets in and then averages how far each one was off. When the algorithm reaches a 0% deviation, that means we solved the problem. His program got to 0.000?? - ask him for the algo it used.
The damn thing's output is ugly as sin though.. well.. actually ugly as sine *cough* .. but it ran out of memory to hold the gene pool and basically swapped the machine it was running on to hell. That's why we need more RAM. :(
As to why such an algorithm would be useful.. I thought that since people basically brute-force through X numbers and run fast-fourier transforms and what-not on them we thought it would be nice if you could compress the keyspace to a pitifully small number. a 1000-bit keyspace now only has maybe 16 bits of keyspace. And because of how primes work... a 10000-bit keyspace might only have 20 bits of keyspace now. Kinda makes using large keys pointless then and puts us back on the fast track to using OTP.
I have. I did some research. It's frighteningly common and there have been books published on it. Research out the Salem witch hunts some time - a small tightly knit community developed a few deviants in the group.. and the whole town came unglued. It's a common theme.. in any small group of people if somebody isn't normalized to that group the whole fabric of things come undone.
Screw Iridium, BUY MIR!
ask this guy about linear solving. It was my idea, but he's got one that's pretty fscking close to being able to predict primes in linear time. I just wish we had enough memory.. we got to a deviation of less than 0.0000?? per thousand.. :( I think we need a 256MB chip to let the tree fully 'bloom'.. but ask him.. he knows how the algo works better than I.
Isn't it about time the Apache project relocated to a country not a member of the WIPO? :)
As to being deviant.. they are mathematically correct... with an IQ of 160 you're, what, 5 standard deviations to the right..? Not that I'm complaining.. I've had similar problems... I can swallow entire books in a day.. my teacher refused to give me extra credit for reading long books after I read a 700 page report and gained so much in extra credit that my book report simply read: "Read the book. Interesting, I'd recommend it. It's 700+ pages long. Now give me an A." In 6th grade, it's apparently not expected people will read more than 250... :)
Anyway... as to "cream of society".. keep in mind that society in general wants cute but dumb girls and hunky CEOs for guys ala hollywood style. The idea of some frazzled engineer building satellites somehow doesn't strike them as the creme de creme of their world.
Just giving you a much needed reality-check and ego deflation. That'll be $6.50 plus tip. ;)
Part of my high school "career" dealt specifically with overcoming people like that - they have nothing constructive to say. Anyway, I'm 20 now and I had to graduate with a GED - high school towards the end was going straight to hell... 2 arrests in as many weeks, public protests, leafleting of the building.. this was in a conservative town of 10k out in Wisconsin.. middle-class bible-loving people. They were outraged, indignant, some of THEM were violent. The police were of similar composition - they were tired of the whole debatacle.. they just wanted me to leave.
Believe me... I have an intimate understanding of how and why these things happen. Most people thing that these kids just fall off the face of the earth after high school.. that they don't exist in the "Real World". We do. But we don't talk about those experiences.. while they taught us alot about how the world works and forever redefined the true definition of freedom (which is that true freedom can only exist in a place where it is safe to be unpopular) is also a chapter in our lives that we would rather leave closed. It's emotionally devastating.. and it is often linked to real physical ailments like depression and social anxiety. I couldn't.. and still can't.. deal with some of the things that happened to me. It's very embarassing being a male and having to ask for help about stuff like this... I find it as no suprise many people don't ask for help.. and die lonely and depressed.. it is truly the hardest battle of one's life.. and to go through it without even understanding why.. at that age.. my god..
It's a truly sad state of affairs.. but in a democracy people often forget that the mob makes the rules; the majority can often have the wrong opinion of what needs to be done. The result is a vicious circle that eats away at itself.. and it's citizens.
The root cause of this is remarkably simple: standardized education hits the middle of the bell-curve and ignores, or is actively hostile to, any more than a standard deviation or so out. That is to say public education satisfies it's demands for about 69-78% of the population. For the rest, however, it's living hell.
Many kids who go through this become depressed, suicidal, despondent, their grades falter, peer relationships become unstable or non-existant.. all the symptoms of a person under high stress. What you are proposing to do will not help these children. All the program will do is associate yet another label to a problem nobody wants to address.
This background was necessary to give you a framework in which to see where I'm coming from with my question. My question is, why are you punishing these kids for being different?
In short, for a backup scheme to be effective, it needs to get down and dirty with the filesystem - abstraction layers invariably lose performance (which in this case is defined by backup speed and how much tape is required).
The other problem is an incredible black hole of documentation. I've gone through everything at freshmeat, and none of them met my criterion of being able to do multi-level backups and could span volumes of variable size. These two criterion aren't exactly difficult to satisfy in the Windows world or even commercial UNIXes, but for linux OSS projects, it was nearly impossible to find it.
The list goes on. I hope this book can provide step-by-step documentation for setting up atleast ONE backup program. AMANDA I hear is nice, but when I downloaded the distribution.. I couldn't make heads or tails of it. This is coming from a guy who wasn't phased when setting up procmail recipes and getting Sendmail working in, uhh, unusual configurations.
That's my $0.02. In short, linux offerings are limited. People focus on the more glamorous things like kernel development or creating a GUI.. but I could really go for the basics - like an easy to use CLI-based backup program that has a decent feature set.
Comeon guys, get with it! News for nerds. Evolution is definately news. Why'd I have to wait this long to hear about it!?