Fixing the wiring screwups will only make the screwups bigger. Didn't C++ teach us this? First you had C, where you could shoot yourself in the foot... then you had C++ with it's encapsulation which made shooting yourself in the foot more difficult.. but when you do you blow your whole foot off.
Here's a thought: How about informing the user their network admin #$@!'d up the wiring and refuses to run along with a detailed description of WHY it doesn't run. We should not be letting things like network wiring be done improperly... it leads to sloppiness and ignorance.
I just read most of the article here and I'm left to wonder why you don't jump in with both feet and post in the forums too? Slashdot prides itself on being a "bazaar" of ideas.. but why are the authors conspicuously absent from the public forums?
I think it would be much more entertaining and thought-provoking if Rob, Katz, and the others jumped into the forums and broke down the barriers between author and poster. In my mind they're the same thing... or ought to be.
A switch functions by only analyzing the raw ethernet (or mac) address.
A router works at a higher level, and CAN do stateful analysis... but for speed you really shouldn't - that's what the firewall is for. Firewalling the backbones would be... umm.. very bad.
That requires holding massive amounts of memory to hold all the information about which packets are going where, how many, etc. Stateful inspection *really* slows down routers and the backbones can barely keep up with the growth rate as is.
It's just not practical right now at the backbone level - not without a major, major overhaul of the existing system. Besides.. how do you define a DoS attack in the first place? It's easy to spot one now.. but what about 80k queries/sec that all look like legitimate traffic? How do you filter THAT ?
Maybe not directly related, but it is central to security...
Why should businesses and individuals trust the government?
As a business, why should it try to help the FBI? I've seen and heard about "busts" which leave a company high and dry. As a business, I wouldn't want something like what happened to Steve Jackson Games happen to me. If you want the support of both businesses and individuals.. what are you doing to assure them that you won't use heavy-handed tactics like stealing their computers or data? More institutions would come forward with their logfiles and information if they knew the FBI could be a) trusted with that information (there has been rumor that agencies like the NSA give out trade-secrets to shut down competing industry) and b) would not conduct an investigation of a scale or type which would interfere with normal business operations. I don't want to hear about how "illegal" such operations are.. I want to know who's accountable when such abuses are made, what procedures are in place to deal with such a contingency, and how effective these measures are.
If you want to help national security - drop the pretenses and be honest with us.
I believe that we need to do this, but establish a holdings company to keep the patents and then make sure than any group which licenses it's product under X, Y and Z licenses can automatically have access to the patents... which neatly ties up the problem of other Free Software presently available and future ones yet to be created having access to such patents.
Yeah, but we need more information to gauge HOW linux is growing.. or not. All this article does is provide fodder so I can walk into the PHB's office and say "see, told you so"... it doesn't do anything more than that for me...
Stop patting yourself on the back people... the media waffles on this frequently - that is to say they take both sides. Why? It sells more papers! Analysts do this all the time - the studies don't mean anything.
Geeks, of all groups, ought to know that it doesn't matter what the trade magazines, PHBs or legions of analysts (Gartner group anyone?) says - It's whether or not it works. If it works for you, it's good. If it doesn't, it's bad and should be avoided. It's that bloody simple. Linux works for me because it's stable, reasonably fast (except for the filesystem - boo, hiss), and supports most of my hardware.
But linux could very easily NOT be an ideal solution for me.. especially if I: a) needed to guarantee I could leave for vacation and be sure if the server crashed somebody ELSE could fix it, b) have an Adaptec Ultra160 SCSI card (I'm working with them on this mixup) or other incompatible hardware, c) require support for an application that doesn't run under linux, or d) am prevented by policy from doing so.
So get over it people - use what works, avoid what doesn't.. and let the analysts go extort the PHBs for every nickle they have... we know the truth, ain't that enough? Do your job as best you can, and let management figure out how you did it later.
I don't care what you say, I don't care about all this scientific mumbo jumbo or testimony, I still think NT is #1.
NT is #1 because:
1)I use it. Linux therefore sucks because I don't use it. 2)I know it, and if you don't you're an idiot 3)They're lying (of course) or They Would See The Light 4)VA Linux and Redhat had IPOs but they aren't making cash. Microsoft is - hand over fist. Isn't that proof enough of product superiority? 5)Nobody ever got fired for using Microsoft products 6)I can unzip!
So you see, NT must be #1. There is just no other way around it. I use it, and that's enough for me - and because I'm so 31337 it's good enough for you to. If you wanna be 31337 too, u gotta use NT bay-bee.
Still, you have to wonder how they got these numbers... I recall hearing awhile back that UNIX and Linux boxen usually have several (and in some cases several thousand) virtual hosts defined. If they are counting virtual servers instead of "actual" servers... the linux numbers may be vastly inflated.
Not that this isn't good news.. but maybe we should be skeptical about both sides - theirs -and- ours...
Okay, first - the easiest way to do it would be throw it up on ebay or some other site and then direct potential buyers to the site. That being said there are really only two ways to look at cybersquatting (practically):
"Use it or lose it" The namespace is very limited. There fewer words than there are companies.. and even people. We really need to link the namespace to geographical distribution - like the.us domain hierarchy. But since that's not profitable so f*ck the rest of us, right? "Use it or lose it" is a call for conservation - we only have a limited number of names so don't hoard them. This means you should give it up as quickly as possible (highest bidder is your option).
"I got here first." This is the second camp. Basically InterNIC has far too much power, and this is the solution - take the power back. Make it so if you get here first, you keep it, end of story. It's remarkably simple and effective but it skirts the issue of the size of the namespace and trademarking issues which, like it or not, have become center-stage since the "dot com" blight. For this, I'd say you got it... so either keep it or resell it depending on what your company's bean counters say - if you can make more money selling it, great. If not, hold on to it (think of it as an investment). Either way, companies are dollar-oriented so make a case to the bean counters one way or the other and go with the best option.
Keep in mind this is the same group of people that published a study that 80% of women had been "raped"... although the study was thoroughly debunked (did you know 2 or more aspirin before sex constituted "rape" b/c the woman was under the "influence of drugs"?). The truthfulness that this group is, at best, questionable. They are effectively hiding their prejudicial views behind a thin veil of political correctness. I urge caution in any dealings with them.
and the USPTO is a sponsoring organization (and therefore one would assume does know about it), what's their excuse going to be now?
Well, I'm not an employee of the USPTO, but I can think of a few: High workload, underpaid/over-worked, lazy employees, untrained employees, high technical prowness to determine validity (ie: requires lots of training), food poisoning took out most of the staff that week so they just stuck "APPROVED" on everything coming in to keep up, they weren't getting enough money from Congress so they asked Microsoft to *cough* "sponsor" them, they didn't care....
At which point does a person declare the existing social structure to be so inefficient, harmful and biased that change from within is impossible?
I'm rapidly reaching the conclusion that there is little anyone can do to stop the large money'd interests from taking away our online freedom: the freedom of information, fair use, free speech, the right to peacefully assemble (ie: post in public forums without fear of retribution - like having your access revoked). I think the system has been evolving ever since about the late 1960's when various economic breakthroughs kickstarted this modern super-corporate era. We railed hard against government invading our privacy, our homes, and our lives... only to turn a blind eye to another group: corporations. And now we have nobody accountable in those positions. We're worse off than before.
So here I am, watching the internet, my playground for most of my youth, evaporate in a flood of money, greed, and ignorance. Am I to stand by, waving a banner saying "please don't steal my rights"? Or should I practice civil disobedience - thumb my nose to the super-corporations, risk life and property and stand up and say simply "No more"?
It's a rare person indeed that draws such an intense response from the geeks and slashdotters amongst us - I'd like to know why you keep posting and commenting even though so many people are outwardly hostile towards you...
The software must have been designed by puritans: they're absolutely up in arms about the idea that somebody... somewhere... might be having fun. I mean - look at it: sex, orgasms, video games - all outlawed. But the really dangerous things in our society like being Politically Correct(tm) - which is essentially discrimination with a new name, or feminism - which some people distort to mean "white males are evil" are all allowed?
You see, that's the problem with censorware - it's very much political, even though the box says it's not. Forcing schools to impliment this is a violation of both the spirit and the letter of the consititution which was created specifically to prevent any one group from dictating their beliefs. The government should not be taking sides! Yet by actively promoting it behind the veil of "political correctness" we're putting ourselves in (at best) a precarious situation.. and at worst a devestating way to deprive minors of alternative viewpoints. Which, afterall, is the point of censorware... it just isn't printed on the box.
i wont even bother to comment on your "30Khz point" because it is completely illogical.. you would want it to vibrate at different rates, ranging from a few times a second to nearly 20000 times a second in order to cover all sounds that the human ear can hear.
Brain was fried. Yes, that is about the range of human hearing.. although it's usually alittle higher than 20k...
I can't see how this could be used for any kind of/quality/ speakers - they're completely non-magnetic.. what's worse, a plastic that vibrates over 30,000 times per second - is that/honestly/ realistic? It would have to be wonder plastic.. the likes of which the world has never seen.
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Here's a thought: How about informing the user their network admin #$@!'d up the wiring and refuses to run along with a detailed description of WHY it doesn't run. We should not be letting things like network wiring be done improperly ... it leads to sloppiness and ignorance.
I think it would be much more entertaining and thought-provoking if Rob, Katz, and the others jumped into the forums and broke down the barriers between author and poster. In my mind they're the same thing ... or ought to be.
Wonder what the response would be if they sent a few billion requests for random pages to their website and did searches..............
A router works at a higher level, and CAN do stateful analysis... but for speed you really shouldn't - that's what the firewall is for. Firewalling the backbones would be... umm.. very bad.
It's just not practical right now at the backbone level - not without a major, major overhaul of the existing system. Besides.. how do you define a DoS attack in the first place? It's easy to spot one now.. but what about 80k queries/sec that all look like legitimate traffic? How do you filter THAT ?
copyright violation blah blah jail blah violation blah blah cease and decist blah blah blah...
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Don't have a cow, man.
Why should businesses and individuals trust the government?
As a business, why should it try to help the FBI? I've seen and heard about "busts" which leave a company high and dry. As a business, I wouldn't want something like what happened to Steve Jackson Games happen to me. If you want the support of both businesses and individuals.. what are you doing to assure them that you won't use heavy-handed tactics like stealing their computers or data? More institutions would come forward with their logfiles and information if they knew the FBI could be a) trusted with that information (there has been rumor that agencies like the NSA give out trade-secrets to shut down competing industry) and b) would not conduct an investigation of a scale or type which would interfere with normal business operations. I don't want to hear about how "illegal" such operations are.. I want to know who's accountable when such abuses are made, what procedures are in place to deal with such a contingency, and how effective these measures are.
If you want to help national security - drop the pretenses and be honest with us.
I believe that we need to do this, but establish a holdings company to keep the patents and then make sure than any group which licenses it's product under X, Y and Z licenses can automatically have access to the patents... which neatly ties up the problem of other Free Software presently available and future ones yet to be created having access to such patents.
Yeah, but we need more information to gauge HOW linux is growing.. or not. All this article does is provide fodder so I can walk into the PHB's office and say "see, told you so"... it doesn't do anything more than that for me...
Geeks, of all groups, ought to know that it doesn't matter what the trade magazines, PHBs or legions of analysts (Gartner group anyone?) says - It's whether or not it works. If it works for you, it's good. If it doesn't, it's bad and should be avoided. It's that bloody simple. Linux works for me because it's stable, reasonably fast (except for the filesystem - boo, hiss), and supports most of my hardware.
But linux could very easily NOT be an ideal solution for me.. especially if I: a) needed to guarantee I could leave for vacation and be sure if the server crashed somebody ELSE could fix it, b) have an Adaptec Ultra160 SCSI card (I'm working with them on this mixup) or other incompatible hardware, c) require support for an application that doesn't run under linux, or d) am prevented by policy from doing so.
So get over it people - use what works, avoid what doesn't.. and let the analysts go extort the PHBs for every nickle they have... we know the truth, ain't that enough? Do your job as best you can, and let management figure out how you did it later.
NT is #1 because:
1)I use it. Linux therefore sucks because I don't use it.
2)I know it, and if you don't you're an idiot
3)They're lying (of course) or They Would See The Light
4)VA Linux and Redhat had IPOs but they aren't making cash. Microsoft is - hand over fist. Isn't that proof enough of product superiority?
5)Nobody ever got fired for using Microsoft products
6)I can unzip!
So you see, NT must be #1. There is just no other way around it. I use it, and that's enough for me - and because I'm so 31337 it's good enough for you to. If you wanna be 31337 too, u gotta use NT bay-bee.
Not that this isn't good news.. but maybe we should be skeptical about both sides - theirs -and- ours...
"Use it or lose it" .us domain hierarchy. But since that's not profitable so f*ck the rest of us, right? "Use it or lose it" is a call for conservation - we only have a limited number of names so don't hoard them. This means you should give it up as quickly as possible (highest bidder is your option).
The namespace is very limited. There fewer words than there are companies.. and even people. We really need to link the namespace to geographical distribution - like the
"I got here first."
This is the second camp. Basically InterNIC has far too much power, and this is the solution - take the power back. Make it so if you get here first, you keep it, end of story. It's remarkably simple and effective but it skirts the issue of the size of the namespace and trademarking issues which, like it or not, have become center-stage since the "dot com" blight. For this, I'd say you got it... so either keep it or resell it depending on what your company's bean counters say - if you can make more money selling it, great. If not, hold on to it (think of it as an investment). Either way, companies are dollar-oriented so make a case to the bean counters one way or the other and go with the best option.
Hope that helps.
Keep in mind this is the same group of people that published a study that 80% of women had been "raped"... although the study was thoroughly debunked (did you know 2 or more aspirin before sex constituted "rape" b/c the woman was under the "influence of drugs"?). The truthfulness that this group is, at best, questionable. They are effectively hiding their prejudicial views behind a thin veil of political correctness. I urge caution in any dealings with them.
Well, I'm not an employee of the USPTO, but I can think of a few: High workload, underpaid/over-worked, lazy employees, untrained employees, high technical prowness to determine validity (ie: requires lots of training), food poisoning took out most of the staff that week so they just stuck "APPROVED" on everything coming in to keep up, they weren't getting enough money from Congress so they asked Microsoft to *cough* "sponsor" them, they didn't care....
FYI to slashdotters - be careful of fakes. Notice the "." at the end of this guy's name and his default posting score of 0.
I'm rapidly reaching the conclusion that there is little anyone can do to stop the large money'd interests from taking away our online freedom: the freedom of information, fair use, free speech, the right to peacefully assemble (ie: post in public forums without fear of retribution - like having your access revoked). I think the system has been evolving ever since about the late 1960's when various economic breakthroughs kickstarted this modern super-corporate era. We railed hard against government invading our privacy, our homes, and our lives... only to turn a blind eye to another group: corporations. And now we have nobody accountable in those positions. We're worse off than before.
So here I am, watching the internet, my playground for most of my youth, evaporate in a flood of money, greed, and ignorance. Am I to stand by, waving a banner saying "please don't steal my rights"? Or should I practice civil disobedience - thumb my nose to the super-corporations, risk life and property and stand up and say simply "No more"?
I want to see if he has a different perspective - not if he has yours.
It's a rare person indeed that draws such an intense response from the geeks and slashdotters amongst us - I'd like to know why you keep posting and commenting even though so many people are outwardly hostile towards you...
What draws you towards this community?
You see, that's the problem with censorware - it's very much political, even though the box says it's not. Forcing schools to impliment this is a violation of both the spirit and the letter of the consititution which was created specifically to prevent any one group from dictating their beliefs. The government should not be taking sides! Yet by actively promoting it behind the veil of "political correctness" we're putting ourselves in (at best) a precarious situation.. and at worst a devestating way to deprive minors of alternative viewpoints. Which, afterall, is the point of censorware... it just isn't printed on the box.
Brain was fried. Yes, that is about the range of human hearing.. although it's usually alittle higher than 20k...
http://home.verio.com/
Thanks verio! Rather than doing something stupid legally, you guys did the Right Thing and withdrew the request. Thanks!
I can't see how this could be used for any kind of /quality/ speakers - they're completely non-magnetic.. what's worse, a plastic that vibrates over 30,000 times per second - is that /honestly/ realistic? It would have to be wonder plastic.. the likes of which the world has never seen.
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