In order to protect websites, ISPs etc. from such attacks, infected PCs' IP addresses must be collected and made available to the public in an up-to-date list (which would ideally even contain dynamic IP addresses currently in use by infected PCs).
These PCs should be disconnected immediately by ISPs, non-complying ISPs should be blocked from major backbones.
The feasibility of building and maintaining such a list is debatable, but for most situations and kinds of malware behaviour that seem common (to me), I can think of solutions (a simple one being to buy the mentioned list on the black market...). In practice, it should not be much harder than maintaining a list of open (mail) relays, although more cooperation from ISPs (e.g. for snooping/logging malware traffic) is needed.
As a long-term solution, legislation should require ISPs to disconnect such problematic PCs immediately or be fined if damage is caused by them.
read at least the first few paragraphs of the article: Realistically, upgrading the older PCs to Windows XP would require a complete hardware replacement.. So, the $100k includes the cost to upgrade the 110 PCs to hardware that would work well with Windows XP.
You're making a very common mistake in implying that innovation is always or necessarily driven by capitalism or the interest in making profit. That is wrong - in some cases this interest may speed up innovation, but in many other cases innovation is being blocked with trivial patents etc. Innovation always happens, whether there is money to back it or not. Look at slashdot (= blogs; innovative product, presumably developed without any commercial interests), Linux, Firefox, Apache...
I think there are a lot of things wrong with how copy protection techologies are being foisted on an unsuspecting public. I'd like to hear from you a similar discussion. Being devil's advocate for a moment, why should self-interested companies be permitted to shift the balance of fundamental liberties, risking free expression, free markets, scientific progress, consumer rights, societal stability, and the end of physical and informational want? Because somebody might be able to steal a song? That seems a rather flimsy excuse.
Perhaps the short description here on slashdot is misleading, but I've seen systems with motion tracking using special gloves myself more than 10 years ago. Here's a big list of such or similar products.
What's the matter with those people? There's work left to do, they should get a grip on themselves. If they were company representatives, one would suspect that the marketing dept. made them do it to stay in the press... Mr. Perens, go write a GIT tutorial or something.
If there are any legal problems with Tridgell's work, they'll sort it out one way or another, but it's no use shouting all over the press what one should do and what not.
... why bother with such a huge 1st stage rocket at vertical takeoff, which has proven to be extremely dangerous, expensive and difficult to handle? Why not just use the much safer (and probably cheaper) assisted takeoff procedure?
just another "research firm" that deserves to go on the blacklist of firms to ignore. The author writes: "[OS databases] Now, some of these are niche products but, even so, there are too many of them. Not all of the companies involved will be able to make enough money out of these products to stay in business. That means that at some point in the future the market will consolidate and a number of these products will disappear.", i.e. he actually considers Open Source databases endangered because some companies might go out of business! Being independent from a particular company's support is a strong argument in favour of Open Source databases, the opposite is true only of closed source products (very simple: company developing closed-source DB goes bust: DB disappears; company developing open source DB goes bust: DB is still available to everyone to use, fix, improve...). What was he drinking when he wrote this, I wonder? This is so completely absurd, like claiming that you shouldn't travel by train because you might die in a plane crash...
Dear editors - I'm all for keeping slashdot busy and filled with opinions of all kind and various perspectives, but please don't link to articles that can only be described as "bullshit" because they fail to provide even a basic logical argument. This is not an "interesting read" by any means, not even a good laugh...
... which is rather disappointing, since it means that apparently you have to connect either a battery or a power supply, both most likely larger than the system itself.
(but, imagine a beowulf cluster of these *cough, cough*)
Open Source project ignores common usability practices and its users' opinions. Wow, never seen that before:)
Also entirely surprisingly, the discussion revolves around the usual common points of view: "DIY or STFU", "we do as we like until we get paid" and "Gnome sucks".
Diversity is necessary for the development of portable software, open standards for interoperability and also for more opportunities for proofs-of-concept and real world testing of new technologies (file systems, GUI libraries etc.).
If it is considered by some to be a weakness of Linux and other OS that distributions are comprised of replaceable parts (including the kernel), then others will consider this a strength. Nowdays it is extremely easy for companies to build a suitable Linux/*BSD system for their clients' needs (governments etc.) from all the available parts and while the result will not necessarily support every particular package file format (rpm, deb,...) to be used for installing new applications, due to the diversity between distributions, one can be sure that most applications can be installed easily (there will either already be a packaged binary installation for the chosen package file fromat or it will compile from source).
PS. I don't know who exactly the article addresses, but I find the language used rather apalling.
Most software is buggy and has security flaws - what is important is the time between the discovery of security flaws and bug fixes. Anyone who isn't a gullible fool knows that OS software has a much better track record here, just compare Linux and Mozilla/Firefox to Windows and MSIE (MSIE still has some holes that were discovered years ago).
the article basically says:
- OpenGL games can look as good as Direct3D games
- Linux games use OpenGL
- NVidia is the better choice for Linux gamers
- Transgaming's Cedega is useful
Since these are mostly well-known facts, the article is not worth bothering with (sorry TomsHardware), it contains nothing new.
I'd consider using PostgreSQL, but it seems the only people that use it are dorks that spend most of their time looking for MySQL postings on the internet and trolling about how Klingon-cool their database is
So, that makes it a very cool-headed technical and competent decision on your behalf - congratulations;-) (and it probably makes you a typical user of *that* particular database).
I think you might have missed the denomination on yahoos query numbers. They said 250 Billion queries every 45 days... That is a bit different than comparing with 250 million.
I think you'll find that the Anonymous Cowards posting I replied to says: "One of our servers handled over a quarter of a billion queries in a month-and-a-half, and it still has capacity to spare". A "quarter of a billion" is still 250 millions around here.
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These PCs should be disconnected immediately by ISPs, non-complying ISPs should be blocked from major backbones.
The feasibility of building and maintaining such a list is debatable, but for most situations and kinds of malware behaviour that seem common (to me), I can think of solutions (a simple one being to buy the mentioned list on the black market...). In practice, it should not be much harder than maintaining a list of open (mail) relays, although more cooperation from ISPs (e.g. for snooping/logging malware traffic) is needed.
As a long-term solution, legislation should require ISPs to disconnect such problematic PCs immediately or be fined if damage is caused by them.
Oh, come on. I (still) like Google, but that's a bit silly, no?
read at least the first few paragraphs of the article: Realistically, upgrading the older PCs to Windows XP would require a complete hardware replacement.. So, the $100k includes the cost to upgrade the 110 PCs to hardware that would work well with Windows XP.
For example:
Nokia Communicator ...
Because of articles such as this one. I presume that you are aware of the U.S. track record at killing journalists intentionally?
Since it (probably!) fails miserably, this shows how well-designed all the current HTML/CSS standards are ("designed by committee", blergh).
You're making a very common mistake in implying that innovation is always or necessarily driven by capitalism or the interest in making profit. That is wrong - in some cases this interest may speed up innovation, but in many other cases innovation is being blocked with trivial patents etc. Innovation always happens, whether there is money to back it or not. Look at slashdot (= blogs; innovative product, presumably developed without any commercial interests), Linux, Firefox, Apache...
I think there are a lot of things wrong with how copy protection techologies are being foisted on an unsuspecting public. I'd like to hear from you a similar discussion. Being devil's advocate for a moment, why should self-interested companies be permitted to shift the balance of fundamental liberties, risking free expression, free markets, scientific progress, consumer rights, societal stability, and the end of physical and informational want? Because somebody might be able to steal a song? That seems a rather flimsy excuse.
http://www.toad.com/gnu/whatswrong.html
Perhaps the short description here on slashdot is misleading, but I've seen systems with motion tracking using special gloves myself more than 10 years ago. Here's a big list of such or similar products.
If there are any legal problems with Tridgell's work, they'll sort it out one way or another, but it's no use shouting all over the press what one should do and what not.
American universities fall way behind in programming Weakest result for U.S. in 29-year history of international technology competition ...
... why bother with such a huge 1st stage rocket at vertical takeoff, which has proven to be extremely dangerous, expensive and difficult to handle? Why not just use the much safer (and probably cheaper) assisted takeoff procedure?
Dear editors - I'm all for keeping slashdot busy and filled with opinions of all kind and various perspectives, but please don't link to articles that can only be described as "bullshit" because they fail to provide even a basic logical argument. This is not an "interesting read" by any means, not even a good laugh...
(but, imagine a beowulf cluster of these *cough, cough*)
Here in Austria (no, not in Soviet Russia), websites are reporting ~20% Mozilla, ~70% MSIE ...
Also entirely surprisingly, the discussion revolves around the usual common points of view: "DIY or STFU", "we do as we like until we get paid" and "Gnome sucks".
*yawn* ...
If it is considered by some to be a weakness of Linux and other OS that distributions are comprised of replaceable parts (including the kernel), then others will consider this a strength. Nowdays it is extremely easy for companies to build a suitable Linux/*BSD system for their clients' needs (governments etc.) from all the available parts and while the result will not necessarily support every particular package file format (rpm, deb, ...) to be used for installing new applications, due to the diversity between distributions, one can be sure that most applications can be installed easily (there will either already be a packaged binary installation for the chosen package file fromat or it will compile from source).
PS. I don't know who exactly the article addresses, but I find the language used rather apalling.
Most software is buggy and has security flaws - what is important is the time between the discovery of security flaws and bug fixes. Anyone who isn't a gullible fool knows that OS software has a much better track record here, just compare Linux and Mozilla/Firefox to Windows and MSIE (MSIE still has some holes that were discovered years ago).
No, and neither do I want to throw away the computer when the keyboard breaks down or becomes too dirty to clean.
So, the Mac mini makes sense.
this one: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html.
(in the WWW announcement)
the article basically says: - OpenGL games can look as good as Direct3D games - Linux games use OpenGL - NVidia is the better choice for Linux gamers - Transgaming's Cedega is useful Since these are mostly well-known facts, the article is not worth bothering with (sorry TomsHardware), it contains nothing new.
Here are some (large) pictures from Austria's first "Sony Center" in Innsbruck.
So, that makes it a very cool-headed technical and competent decision on your behalf - congratulations ;-) (and it probably makes you a typical user of *that* particular database).
I think you'll find that the Anonymous Cowards posting I replied to says: "One of our servers handled over a quarter of a billion queries in a month-and-a-half, and it still has capacity to spare". A "quarter of a billion" is still 250 millions around here.