I guess there could be multiple possible reasons. For example, it's good for learning (some parts) of how does your system work, or it could be good for "power users", or as you mentioned, for embedded systems or you could be a professional and just know how to design a good system. I'm sure there are much more reasons why someone would use systems like LFS.
Thats why i used the expression drdos, somewhere in the other Lycos slashdickle there was someone who mentioned it. Im aware Lycos monitors its not to become a ddos, just to be financially painful.
Second of all: Hungary has anti spam laws, part of the law-pack which is about IT. Third of all: i have seen really small amounts of _hungarian_ originated spam. Mostly its from the USA or from Asia. If you read my other post somewhere up, i made similar assumptions.
Well, imo it doesn't really matter who hacked the site, would it be some geek-spammer or a hired geek. The thing that matters is the fact itself. This obviously means spammers feel threatened or im still avaiting another possible explanation. The claim that this gives only more traffic to the net, is in my opinion maybe true on short term, but is not true on long term. What is the reason to start ddosing those sites? Its to make them go out of business. What happens when they go out of business? They stop spamming, thus the traffic on the internet reduces. I know not all spammers sell stuff, but it would be still a great effect to affect the spamming industry this way, im sure on the long term, if doing coordinated drdos attacks against spammers, the bandwith usage would decrease. This is all in theory - mind you. Other things needs to be considered before - like ethics. Isn't it sinking down to the level by d[rd]dossing? Well, its another question.
Perl stands for "Practical Extraction and Report Language" How is this NOT an acronym? Not to nitpick, but to correct. Your statement about the differences between Perl vs. perl is correct.
Yeah, quite the same here. Im a music freak and i was listening to the theme song over and over again...
~Burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me~
...Firefly is really superb. Its a shame they are delaying its premier. Maybe people can argue that, but not that it's unique in its own kind. I really loved the western feeling, although it only lived 14 episodes:\ I wish they would have supported it instead of those brainless reality shows, etc.
Dragged away for one side copies? Here it's perfectly legal to print one-side copies, if the other side is blank. Its the fault of the company producing those machines that they didnt verify the stuff...
Okay, lets be frank. To avoid legal problems we need to find a "legitimate" excuse for P2P programs to be able to exist. It is because sharing files shouldn't be considered a crime, though it is. I agree, its an excuse, but its with reason. With RFID, the exact opposite happens: something invading privacy, which is a real concern is not banned or at least sancioned (to use with care). I would freak out at the idea if i were one of the Texas students tracked by RFID.
Its not science. Its about _planning_ and _building_ the reactors. These arent small things, and are very complex. The science is "there" already, there is a working fusion reactor in the UK already, as i mentioned somewhere else.
No, we of course never heard about Enron, Haliburton,etc. etc. Or maybe the next excuse will be that France/Japan is building WMD's in the new reactor to bomb it to dust?
Sorry to reply to my own post, but here are some interesting things: There is already a working fusion reactor in the UK. This one though, not generates but consumes power. It's because the reactor is too small, it needs to have a big enough size for the reaction inside to be self-sustaining, and its not big enough for that. The first reactor which would actually produce power, is what the debate about atm.
This is all wrong. Its not a nuclear reactor. Its a fusion reactor. It has million and million C hot plasma in it(4th state of materials). The shape of the reactor is called tokamak (at least in hungarian, not sure about the correct english writing of it). The really good thing about this reactor that its not dangerous. While in nuclear reactors, some events can lead into a chain reaction. No such thing can happen in a fusion reactor, since If the reaction gets more input(materials, heat, etc) its just shuts itself down, on the contrary to the exponential reaction observed in nuclear reactions. The fusion reactor is one of the cleanest if not the cleanest known way to produce energy.
delay the fusion project. Reason: oil industry. I attended a presentation about the technical background of Fusion(tokamak) reactors in Hungary last year. Probably 2036 is the time when the first feasible fusion reactor could have started working, that was the plan a year ago. It happens to be at the same time when oil supplies run out. If these kind of reactors make it before that time, oil companies lose money. And thats a thing the USA wont let.
Imo, usability is part of security, since both come from the same "trunk": design. You could never design a good, not bloated, usable application without good design, which includes planning good on security aswell...
Well, its really dependant on a person's view. If you would rather trust a ms windows xp as a server, just because its tested worldwide, and dump the FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Gentoo server which has custom stuff isp stuff in many cases "make their system unstable with", like scripts, performance-patched daemons, etc. I'm sorry, but if you need support for your production server, well, then you shouldn't be admining it in the first place (ok, don't count some extreme cases).
Btw, im not saying gentoo is perfect. Its just very good.
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That's exactly with the problem with it. Too tightly integrated!
Yeah, im aware of that, i was just trying to hint at the pre-distrib. era when Torvalds was hacking it together :)
I think this is the oldest, not the latest distribution...
I guess there could be multiple possible reasons. For example, it's good for learning (some parts) of how does your system work, or it could be good for "power users", or as you mentioned, for embedded systems or you could be a professional and just know how to design a good system. I'm sure there are much more reasons why someone would use systems like LFS.
Thats why i used the expression drdos, somewhere in the other Lycos slashdickle there was someone who mentioned it. Im aware Lycos monitors its not to become a ddos, just to be financially painful.
First of all: its Hungary.
Second of all: Hungary has anti spam laws, part of the law-pack which is about IT.
Third of all: i have seen really small amounts of _hungarian_ originated spam. Mostly its from the USA or from Asia. If you read my other post somewhere up, i made similar assumptions.
Well, imo it doesn't really matter who hacked the site, would it be some geek-spammer or a hired geek. The thing that matters is the fact itself. This obviously means spammers feel threatened or im still avaiting another possible explanation. The claim that this gives only more traffic to the net, is in my opinion maybe true on short term, but is not true on long term. What is the reason to start ddosing those sites? Its to make them go out of business. What happens when they go out of business? They stop spamming, thus the traffic on the internet reduces. I know not all spammers sell stuff, but it would be still a great effect to affect the spamming industry this way, im sure on the long term, if doing coordinated drdos attacks against spammers, the bandwith usage would decrease. This is all in theory - mind you. Other things needs to be considered before - like ethics. Isn't it sinking down to the level by d[rd]dossing? Well, its another question.
Perl stands for "Practical Extraction and Report Language"
How is this NOT an acronym? Not to nitpick, but to correct. Your statement about the differences between Perl vs. perl is correct.
Yeah, quite the same here. Im a music freak and i was listening to the theme song over and over again...
~Burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me~
...Firefly is really superb. Its a shame they are delaying its premier. Maybe people can argue that, but not that it's unique in its own kind. I really loved the western feeling, although it only lived 14 episodes :\ I wish they would have supported it instead of those brainless reality shows, etc.
i think there are serious bugs in the /. lameness filter aswell.
Dragged away for one side copies? Here it's perfectly legal to print one-side copies, if the other side is blank. Its the fault of the company producing those machines that they didnt verify the stuff...
...someone really overused "said" in that article? It got really annoying from the middle of the article.
Okay, lets be frank. To avoid legal problems we need to find a "legitimate" excuse for P2P programs to be able to exist. It is because sharing files shouldn't be considered a crime, though it is. I agree, its an excuse, but its with reason. With RFID, the exact opposite happens: something invading privacy, which is a real concern is not banned or at least sancioned (to use with care). I would freak out at the idea if i were one of the Texas students tracked by RFID.
Internet connection: $40/mo
Leat ass computer: $1500
Making a gay comment on slashdot unanonymously: priceless!
...fine. Especially in the Central-Eastern parts of Europe. IT starts to gain more velocity here...But thats only my observation.
I think its useful aswell if it just contracts when getting hotter, coolant systems for example came into my mind by the first glance...
Just because someone is cricit against the good old states it doesn't mean he/she is trolling. SO GO FUCK YOURSELVES STUPID AMERICAN MODERATORS.
Its not science. Its about _planning_ and _building_ the reactors. These arent small things, and are very complex. The science is "there" already, there is a working fusion reactor in the UK already, as i mentioned somewhere else.
No, we of course never heard about Enron, Haliburton ,etc. etc. Or maybe the next excuse will be that France/Japan is building WMD's in the new reactor to bomb it to dust?
Sorry to reply to my own post, but here are some interesting things: There is already a working fusion reactor in the UK. This one though, not generates but consumes power. It's because the reactor is too small, it needs to have a big enough size for the reaction inside to be self-sustaining, and its not big enough for that. The first reactor which would actually produce power, is what the debate about atm.
This is all wrong. Its not a nuclear reactor. Its a fusion reactor. It has million and million C hot plasma in it(4th state of materials). The shape of the reactor is called tokamak (at least in hungarian, not sure about the correct english writing of it). The really good thing about this reactor that its not dangerous. While in nuclear reactors, some events can lead into a chain reaction. No such thing can happen in a fusion reactor, since If the reaction gets more input(materials, heat, etc) its just shuts itself down, on the contrary to the exponential reaction observed in nuclear reactions. The fusion reactor is one of the cleanest if not the cleanest known way to produce energy.
delay the fusion project. Reason: oil industry. I attended a presentation about the technical background of Fusion(tokamak) reactors in Hungary last year. Probably 2036 is the time when the first feasible fusion reactor could have started working, that was the plan a year ago. It happens to be at the same time when oil supplies run out. If these kind of reactors make it before that time, oil companies lose money. And thats a thing the USA wont let.
Imo, usability is part of security, since both come from the same "trunk": design. You could never design a good, not bloated, usable application without good design, which includes planning good on security aswell...
Well, its really dependant on a person's view. If you would rather trust a ms windows xp as a server, just because its tested worldwide, and dump the FreeBSD/OpenBSD/Gentoo server which has custom stuff isp stuff in many cases "make their system unstable with", like scripts, performance-patched daemons, etc. I'm sorry, but if you need support for your production server, well, then you shouldn't be admining it in the first place (ok, don't count some extreme cases).
Btw, im not saying gentoo is perfect. Its just very good.