Because a handheld video game that is great to play (I have one), but really is just advances in existing technology can't really be compared to:
University of Wisconsin at Madison researchers found a way to use carbon monoxide, a fuel cell waste product that ordinarily degrades cells, to produce more energy.
One is a toy, the other has serious implications for all of society.
Background fsck works well in FreeBSD - journaled filesystems tend to avoid the painfully long checks anyway, but there's no reason even those checks shouldn't/couldn't be pushed into the background.
Let's see... 400+ posts about vote fixing without supporting facts, most of those will be flames, but at least Slashdot will make advertising revenue, right?
You'd be surprised how popular (well designed) flash is getting...
No, I'm not talking about those annoying sites that flash and blink and play horrible noise, but the work put out by real flash design studios.
For example, the next generation of cell phones put out by Motorola / NTT Docomo will have Flash UIs. It's a nice looking, very flexible technology that's easy to embed and capable of accepting the industry standard tools.
On page 9 (of 41), 2 paragraphs before the prior quote:
Today, a prime motivation for cyber attacks is money: a high return on minimal investment and a high degree of anonymity. Terrorists or criminals can obtain or launder money across the Internet, typically by disguising their activities through miscreant cutouts. The orderliness and command structure of criminal and terrorist organizations is growing. The anonymous and complex nature of the Internet makes it even more difficult to monitor and track violators. Hacker crews and individuals are working togethr across the globe in a virtual, anonymous network of individuals who specialize in different types and parts of attacks, such as propagation speed, denial of service, password logging, and data theft.
It's not directly talking about botnets, but rather, a more general class of attack that involves organized crime. Certainly, botnets come into play in many of these situations, as DDoS inspired extortion climbs (ask Authorize.net). You're right - I don't believe the authors consider the zombies and bots 'criminals and terrorists', but I'm sure they believe the operators are one or both of those characterizations.
They've also identified that much of the problem comes from outside of their jurisdiction, so I'm actually optimistic that their solution won't be that stupid...
I could see something along the lines of mandated filters on international links, though. Time for MCI and Level3 to break out the lobbying money, else their international business may get much more expensive (can you imagine the peering complications if you have to enforce content filtering at the ISP level?)
Many certainly don't. Seems like something where the topic would be addressed in many separate classes, but I can't see the importance of a few course on it.
You talk about the coding implications when you teach common coding practices (buffer overflows, etc, belong in a C/C++ theory course), you talk about the practical implications in networking style courses, and you talk about the social and realistic implementations in computing ethics courses.
Build it into the curriculum doesn't mean making a single course and forgetting about it - it means building it into the curriculum.
They're definitely focusing on a wide range... something I didn't expect to see in the report was the DDoS / zombie bot armies:
Just as 1920s gangsters evolved into organized crime syndicates, a sophisticated command and control network is emerging within the Internet with agreed-upon boundaries of control and "gangs" working for a "boss." These modern criminals and terrorists often don't know or meet the crews who carry out the actual cyber attacks, making it even more difficult to track and prosecute them.
Definitely something worth investigating, just wondering what a few billion in research dollars is going to reveal - hopefully more than "it's a problem that's difficult to fix" report.
In Orange County (CA), the predictive/sensor lights are already in place, and are on date/time schedules, as well.
At night, a single car coming will have the green light lit in advance assuming no other cars at the intersection.
During light traffic hours, a large group of cars will get the light over a single car, though the single car will get the light immediately after passing.
During heavy traffic hours, the light will cycle in sequence, with exceptions made for emergency vehicles.
It's the oddities that cause problems. For example, we have a check-printer here that comes with windows drivers, and despite spending a LOT of time (even had RedHat support try), we were unable to get Linux to cooperate...
When the CFO can't print a check, you can't use Linux on his desktop (or his assistant's). You can, though, put it in engineering (depending on the company, in reception, and in many of the administrative offices).
The key, we've found, is to do it department-by-department rather than company-by-company. Transitioning individual departments allows for easy bookkeeping, still saves money, and allows for the occasional exception due to application/hardware lockins.
I own one of these little devices, and I'm very unhappy with the harddrive performance.
Not only does it suck battery life while playing, the drive performance seems to suffer after a while - I can't tell if it's fragmentation from being nearly full, or running while the battery slowly drains is causing hardware failures.
The sound, though, remains decent. The multiple formats are nice. The software is actually quite good.
It's not the type of player where you throw it out after you buy it because it's garbage, but you may want to think carefully before purchasing it.
Next you'll tell me that there are still people reading Byte!
Don't be ridiculous!
Byte became Bit before becoming being bought by benevolent babies bent on becoming Biters.
(sorry).
In all seriousness, for those of you not familiar with the problems, PayPal has a history of locking and seizing money on both sides of suspicious transactions.
If someone uses a stolen credit card/account to pay you, and you don't get your money (all money, not just that transaction) out in time, you run the risk of losing all of it. Worse still, because they're "not a bank", they're not subject to the same laws as banks, and your chances of getting all of the money in the end are very, very slim.
10:50 PM PST - responding so slowly here that half of the images time out.
Very poor planning. Surprises happen, but rollbacks should always be an option. Fighting through trouble takes time, hopefully tonight will give them the break they need to get things straight.
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One is a toy, the other has serious implications for all of society.
Background fsck works well in FreeBSD - journaled filesystems tend to avoid the painfully long checks anyway, but there's no reason even those checks shouldn't/couldn't be pushed into the background.
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Let's see ... 400+ posts about vote fixing without supporting facts, most of those will be flames, but at least Slashdot will make advertising revenue, right?
You'd be surprised how popular (well designed) flash is getting...
No, I'm not talking about those annoying sites that flash and blink and play horrible noise, but the work put out by real flash design studios.
For example, the next generation of cell phones put out by Motorola / NTT Docomo will have Flash UIs. It's a nice looking, very flexible technology that's easy to embed and capable of accepting the industry standard tools.
The security focus mailing list dedicated to forensics is also good lurking, for those interested...
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http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/sf/forensi
It's not directly talking about botnets, but rather, a more general class of attack that involves organized crime. Certainly, botnets come into play in many of these situations, as DDoS inspired extortion climbs (ask Authorize.net). You're right - I don't believe the authors consider the zombies and bots 'criminals and terrorists', but I'm sure they believe the operators are one or both of those characterizations.
They've also identified that much of the problem comes from outside of their jurisdiction, so I'm actually optimistic that their solution won't be that stupid...
I could see something along the lines of mandated filters on international links, though. Time for MCI and Level3 to break out the lobbying money, else their international business may get much more expensive (can you imagine the peering complications if you have to enforce content filtering at the ISP level?)
Many certainly don't. Seems like something where the topic would be addressed in many separate classes, but I can't see the importance of a few course on it.
You talk about the coding implications when you teach common coding practices (buffer overflows, etc, belong in a C/C++ theory course), you talk about the practical implications in networking style courses, and you talk about the social and realistic implementations in computing ethics courses.
Build it into the curriculum doesn't mean making a single course and forgetting about it - it means building it into the curriculum.
Definitely something worth investigating, just wondering what a few billion in research dollars is going to reveal - hopefully more than "it's a problem that's difficult to fix" report.
In Orange County (CA), the predictive/sensor lights are already in place, and are on date/time schedules, as well.
At night, a single car coming will have the green light lit in advance assuming no other cars at the intersection.
During light traffic hours, a large group of cars will get the light over a single car, though the single car will get the light immediately after passing.
During heavy traffic hours, the light will cycle in sequence, with exceptions made for emergency vehicles.
Works reasonably well.
It wasn't the first site in the genre.
It won't be the last.
No telling if that's supposed to be an ARG or not, but it certainly seems to be a promo site.
Most laser printers work, yes.
It's the oddities that cause problems. For example, we have a check-printer here that comes with windows drivers, and despite spending a LOT of time (even had RedHat support try), we were unable to get Linux to cooperate...
When the CFO can't print a check, you can't use Linux on his desktop (or his assistant's). You can, though, put it in engineering (depending on the company, in reception, and in many of the administrative offices).
The key, we've found, is to do it department-by-department rather than company-by-company. Transitioning individual departments allows for easy bookkeeping, still saves money, and allows for the occasional exception due to application/hardware lockins.
You do know that Windows implements quite a few portions of POSIX, right?
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I own one of these little devices, and I'm very unhappy with the harddrive performance. Not only does it suck battery life while playing, the drive performance seems to suffer after a while - I can't tell if it's fragmentation from being nearly full, or running while the battery slowly drains is causing hardware failures. The sound, though, remains decent. The multiple formats are nice. The software is actually quite good. It's not the type of player where you throw it out after you buy it because it's garbage, but you may want to think carefully before purchasing it.
Next you'll tell me that there are still people reading Byte! Don't be ridiculous! Byte became Bit before becoming being bought by benevolent babies bent on becoming Biters. (sorry).
In all seriousness, for those of you not familiar with the problems, PayPal has a history of locking and seizing money on both sides of suspicious transactions. If someone uses a stolen credit card/account to pay you, and you don't get your money (all money, not just that transaction) out in time, you run the risk of losing all of it. Worse still, because they're "not a bank", they're not subject to the same laws as banks, and your chances of getting all of the money in the end are very, very slim.
10:50 PM PST - responding so slowly here that half of the images time out. Very poor planning. Surprises happen, but rollbacks should always be an option. Fighting through trouble takes time, hopefully tonight will give them the break they need to get things straight.