No, now all we'll need is our digital creations to look up at us from our monitors, deny our existence, and proceed to combine with each other through software backdoors. Evil little bastards.
Disclaimer: this is a JOKE, I am not a creationist, a religious person, or someone trying to make a point.
Microsoft was working on something like this too, called Network Quarantine. Basically, the server would request a ticket from the machine indicating its virus definition file version, system health, etc.
If anything was less than kosher, the same kind of thing would happen as you speak of. You'd be put on a VLAN with access limited to servers with patches and other updates.
My problem with it was that you have to trust the client machine to report its health status correctly, while such information could be easily mangled by virii or spyware.
Maybe because Google wants to ensure that Wikipedia has better uptime so they can start doing an "Encyclopedia Result" from Wikipedia on the top of search results. They are adding reliability to the service so they can utilize it without fear of high profile broken links.
Well, I hate analogies, but here's my try:
Would you think highly of a rapist and/or pedophile that published public criticisms of other rapists and/or pedophiles?
I think it's almost like "the pot calling the kettle black."
Also, IMHO and I'm not trying to troll, Michael is a horrible editor.
I don't know anything about the hijacking situation, but if Michael did do it I'd say this is still a pretty funny post. It's not necessarily WRONG of him to post the submission, but it's still quite funny.
There's an oft used, almost cliche saying that applies here: "Easier said than done."
How the hell are you, the sysadmin, supposed to go around checking out the power redundancy of a huge, well-known colocation facility? That is what THEY are supposed to do, and NO facility will let you sample the diesel generator when you see fit. Of course, it's really easy to sit on the sidelines and yell at the players.
You are an idiot. Go back to your parents' basement and "make sure as hell" that your head is screwed on before you feel like commenting again.
You're telling me! I was just sitting on the can reading Slashdot, and right after the words "Texas Goes After Student..." I was running out the door flailing with a trail of TP dragging behind me.
I didn't specifically remember doing anything wrong, but the targeting of the title was a bit too close for my brain in the early morning!
A small nitpick... the anthropic principle centers on the "observer"... i.e. we can only observe our existence because we exist, and if we were much different we wouldn't be here to observe it.
Life, it seems, is a giant optimization problem. We find ourselves in a universe that sits at a criticial point between all of the constraints. It has one of the relatively few configurations of universal constants where existence is possible. Thus, whether the universe is infinite is immaterial. The fact that we exist validates that this critical point was met, no matter how large or small the probability.
Try the book "The Constants of Nature", it delves into some interesting mathematical and topological topics related to the anthropic principle.
The RF phase modulator is tuned at a slightly different phase angle in GSM based handsets, resulting in wavelengths that have more difficulty penetrating the epidermis.
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nothing for you to "sea" here?
"Garrick, please kern the double underscores in listing 2."
... what is it with this guy?
Looks like Garrick was watching a movie instead of editing
Here's to hoping that you get mod-bombed to disprove your little theory :-p
Oh no, don't mod me!
No, now all we'll need is our digital creations to look up at us from our monitors, deny our existence, and proceed to combine with each other through software backdoors. Evil little bastards.
Disclaimer: this is a JOKE, I am not a creationist, a religious person, or someone trying to make a point.
Microsoft was working on something like this too, called Network Quarantine. Basically, the server would request a ticket from the machine indicating its virus definition file version, system health, etc.
If anything was less than kosher, the same kind of thing would happen as you speak of. You'd be put on a VLAN with access limited to servers with patches and other updates.
My problem with it was that you have to trust the client machine to report its health status correctly, while such information could be easily mangled by virii or spyware.
"(http://www.pcweenies.org/)"
... you like PC Weenies?
"obligatory PC Weenies cartoon"
"The PC Weenies [pcweenies.org]: Tech toons for tech enthusaists"
I sense that
Linky
Click the second link in the summary, sir.
Maybe because Google wants to ensure that Wikipedia has better uptime so they can start doing an "Encyclopedia Result" from Wikipedia on the top of search results. They are adding reliability to the service so they can utilize it without fear of high profile broken links.
Fool! You do not know TEH GOOGLE!
In Soviet Korea, only old servers find you!
Well, I hate analogies, but here's my try: Would you think highly of a rapist and/or pedophile that published public criticisms of other rapists and/or pedophiles? I think it's almost like "the pot calling the kettle black." Also, IMHO and I'm not trying to troll, Michael is a horrible editor. I don't know anything about the hijacking situation, but if Michael did do it I'd say this is still a pretty funny post. It's not necessarily WRONG of him to post the submission, but it's still quite funny.
I'm still trying to figure out HOW it "takes over the machine", but it says that it maintains state on the host machine as well as itself. Hmmm...
It's just a modern day version of reading a newspaper in the bathroom man: a laptop with wifi.
I'm not really sure, but I bet it has something to do with digital signatures.
The fish in Finding Nemo is an Angler fish.
There's an oft used, almost cliche saying that applies here: "Easier said than done." How the hell are you, the sysadmin, supposed to go around checking out the power redundancy of a huge, well-known colocation facility? That is what THEY are supposed to do, and NO facility will let you sample the diesel generator when you see fit. Of course, it's really easy to sit on the sidelines and yell at the players. You are an idiot. Go back to your parents' basement and "make sure as hell" that your head is screwed on before you feel like commenting again.
Actually, almost a third of the people on death row are white. I can't say anything about their financial status, though.
You're telling me! I was just sitting on the can reading Slashdot, and right after the words "Texas Goes After Student ..." I was running out the door flailing with a trail of TP dragging behind me.
I didn't specifically remember doing anything wrong, but the targeting of the title was a bit too close for my brain in the early morning!
Damn you, "a number of people", damn you to hell!
A small nitpick ... the anthropic principle centers on the "observer" ... i.e. we can only observe our existence because we exist, and if we were much different we wouldn't be here to observe it.
Life, it seems, is a giant optimization problem. We find ourselves in a universe that sits at a criticial point between all of the constraints. It has one of the relatively few configurations of universal constants where existence is possible. Thus, whether the universe is infinite is immaterial. The fact that we exist validates that this critical point was met, no matter how large or small the probability.
Try the book "The Constants of Nature", it delves into some interesting mathematical and topological topics related to the anthropic principle.
At first, I got "Nothing to see here" ... but Paris Hilton? Sounds like that guy had plenty to see ;-)
The RF phase modulator is tuned at a slightly different phase angle in GSM based handsets, resulting in wavelengths that have more difficulty penetrating the epidermis.
Duh!
Oh, don't flatter yourself. :)
To protect the people who use the patented work from entities who might have registered the patents and enforced them?
Of course, I also think that after it is fixed there should be a full disclosure.