As a targeted attack against a commercial venture any support team worth their salt will do patching as part of routine maintenance - don't we guys'n'gals? As an attack against mom and pop PCs there are so many hardware variants that any one piece of malware will have a very limited target.
To me this looks like talking up a non existent problem - but I'm open to persuasion otherwise.
The Horrible science books are fantastic for youngsters and have an added bonus of improving reading skills. Unfortunately they may not be available in the US.
All this is hardly surprising - there is a straightforward evolutionary arms race between the black and white hats. Faster cheetahs mean faster gazelles and vice-versa. Ironically, although I am no fan of any form of malware, there is a positive aspect in that necessity is the mother of invention. The rise in computing 'exteligence' - to use a term developed by Terry Pratchett - that is a direct result of the need to either overcome the rise in malware, or, alternatively overcome the rise in protection, is quite impressive.
According to Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman in Good Omens Hell has much to learn from the modern software license. I'm not sure that I would necessarily quote Messrs Pratchett and Gaiman as infallible sources but...
Putting aside natural feelings of outrage and injustice exactly what offense with an associate jail term have they committed? I'm not sure about the US, I'm a Brit, but over here offenses under the Data Protection act don't carry jail terms.
Ok, so my experience is rural UK based but for me the last mile is what stops me using t'internet for realtime video downloads. Sure I do plenty of bittorrent downloads where I can go away and leave them to cook but realtime still sucks and it's all about the slow response over the last mile.
Now, when they fix that... but maybe by then they'll have increased the backbone as well.
I don't know about you I live two miles from my office and cycle. It's fun, it's free and it keeps me fit.
However I also totally agree with what you're saying. If I didn't live so close I would be in the same boat. What I'm saying is that, in the long run, making traffic flow more efficient doesn't solve the problem. Making public transport more efficient (and nicer) does.
Ok, ok, I know this sounds like a troll but seriously, when we have a situation where traffic speeds in major cities is declining endlessly we need to look to long term solutions, not tinkering with the symptoms.
From TFA
Sun spokesman Mark Richardson took umbrage at the focus on speed. "It's an easier marketing message to deliver to say that faster gigahertz means a faster processor," he said. His colleague, chip expert Fadi Azhari, explained how the Mountain View firm uses a different technical trick, called multithreading, to make a computer faster but not hotter. Is this just sour grapes or has Mark Richardson got a valid point? I don't know enough to judge but I'm sure there's plenty of opinion her on/.
The article states that
The National Sleep Foundation reports that adults need seven to nine hours of sleep every night to be adequately rested, Maggie Thatcher was notorious for existing on three to four hours a night and she wasn't exactly an underachiever. Much as I loath and detest her I'd be proud to have her level of achievement.
With the rate of growth of technology being greater than exponential this gap is just going to increase. We are running into a major revolution in society where the old paradigms simply won't work. The only problem is that those with the authority to make the changes, almost by definition, don't have the understanding.
But then, back in the 60's we thought that we were the misunderstood generation who were going to sweep away all the old farts and bring in the dawning of the age of Aquarius so some things don't change.
... there are ideas for managing the address space more efficiently by introducing auction and other pricing mechanisms to encourage better use (people who don't need their allocation will flog them off rather than hoarding them, while new uses will be parsimonious in their approach), but the developing world sees this as unfair in the extreme. You can see their point.
There are other problems: how do you route IP addresses when the existing hierarchy breaks down due to address spaces moving through the network? Who's responsible for managing an increasingly incoherent network? Who foots the bill when your address space is sold from underneath you? In any case, it doesn't solve the basic problem - it merely makes it increasingly expensive to innovate. so it's not quite that easy...
a metric shitload Is that the SI shitload? Is it bigger or smaller than the imperial shitload? Can you combine the two shitloads when, for example, landing spacecraft?
The hackers collaborated online to attack and take control of as many as one million computers around the world that were not equipped with anti-virus software or firewalls
Police won't reveal what the information was used for but investigators estimate that the network profited by as much as $45 million. Hmm... as many as, as much as, or maybe they're inflating the figures to show what macho investigators they are.
I've done a quick Google search and none of the sites have anything more than the rather superficial msnbc link. Even the UCL page doesn't really give much. What it breaks down to is
Fosil frog found in Madagascar
It's big - about the size of a bowling ball and estimated at 10lb - or around 5Kg for scientists
It's not like modern Madagascan frogs but more like South American ones which raises issues about lineage and land masses at the relevant (non specified - and why not - millions of years ago isn't very precise) era
I guess they're saving the real info up for the PNAS paper.
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I'm not talking about you, nor was I expressing my personal view point, I'm talking about Europe which on average has far more interventionst governments than the US of A. You tend away all you like but, on average my point still holds.
This assumes that you believe that a totally free market is a good thing(tm). We Europeans tend to take a more interventionist approach, especially where one competitor seems to have been accused of breaking the law. If Intell were sending round the goon squad to smash up AMDs manufacturing plants would this be Ok because
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As a targeted attack against a commercial venture any support team worth their salt will do patching as part of routine maintenance - don't we guys'n'gals? As an attack against mom and pop PCs there are so many hardware variants that any one piece of malware will have a very limited target.
To me this looks like talking up a non existent problem - but I'm open to persuasion otherwise.
The Horrible science books are fantastic for youngsters and have an added bonus of improving reading skills. Unfortunately they may not be available in the US.
All this is hardly surprising - there is a straightforward evolutionary arms race between the black and white hats. Faster cheetahs mean faster gazelles and vice-versa. Ironically, although I am no fan of any form of malware, there is a positive aspect in that necessity is the mother of invention. The rise in computing 'exteligence' - to use a term developed by Terry Pratchett - that is a direct result of the need to either overcome the rise in malware, or, alternatively overcome the rise in protection, is quite impressive.
Hmm...
According to Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman in Good Omens Hell has much to learn from the modern software license. I'm not sure that I would necessarily quote Messrs Pratchett and Gaiman as infallible sources but...
Putting aside natural feelings of outrage and injustice exactly what offense with an associate jail term have they committed? I'm not sure about the US, I'm a Brit, but over here offenses under the Data Protection act don't carry jail terms.
Ok, so my experience is rural UK based but for me the last mile is what stops me using t'internet for realtime video downloads. Sure I do plenty of bittorrent downloads where I can go away and leave them to cook but realtime still sucks and it's all about the slow response over the last mile.
Now, when they fix that... but maybe by then they'll have increased the backbone as well.
However I also totally agree with what you're saying. If I didn't live so close I would be in the same boat. What I'm saying is that, in the long run, making traffic flow more efficient doesn't solve the problem. Making public transport more efficient (and nicer) does.
Better still - use public transport.
Ok, ok, I know this sounds like a troll but seriously, when we have a situation where traffic speeds in major cities is declining endlessly we need to look to long term solutions, not tinkering with the symptoms.
And what have you got against Gerry Anderson
Bow down and worship.
It was only after sensitive information had leaked that anything was done about it.
Err... that site is a parody. It doesn't take that long to knock out a parody.
BTW, I love the author's name E.X.Tend who presumably co-writes with E.M.Brace
With the rate of growth of technology being greater than exponential this gap is just going to increase. We are running into a major revolution in society where the old paradigms simply won't work. The only problem is that those with the authority to make the changes, almost by definition, don't have the understanding.
But then, back in the 60's we thought that we were the misunderstood generation who were going to sweep away all the old farts and bring in the dawning of the age of Aquarius so some things don't change.
... there are ideas for managing the address space more efficiently by introducing auction and other pricing mechanisms to encourage better use (people who don't need their allocation will flog them off rather than hoarding them, while new uses will be parsimonious in their approach), but the developing world sees this as unfair in the extreme. You can see their point.There are other problems: how do you route IP addresses when the existing hierarchy breaks down due to address spaces moving through the network? Who's responsible for managing an increasingly incoherent network? Who foots the bill when your address space is sold from underneath you? In any case, it doesn't solve the basic problem - it merely makes it increasingly expensive to innovate. so it's not quite that easy...
Maybe it's because I'm in my fifties but this seems incomprehensible - but then so does my teenage son's taste in music so maybe I'm just old.
- Fosil frog found in Madagascar
- It's big - about the size of a bowling ball and estimated at 10lb - or around 5Kg for scientists
- It's not like modern Madagascan frogs but more like South American ones which raises issues about lineage and land masses at the relevant (non specified - and why not - millions of years ago isn't very precise) era
I guess they're saving the real info up for the PNAS paper.when they start shooting at you.
I'm not talking about you, nor was I expressing my personal view point, I'm talking about Europe which on average has far more interventionst governments than the US of A. You tend away all you like but, on average my point still holds.