The few seconds it requires to restart a lot of daemons is much faster than the minute or two it takes to restart Linux. High availability systems aside, in a lot of single server solutions, a daemon restart will go unnoticed while a full system restart will not.
At least there is a way to avoid the problem. Half the time I can't be even bothered to install the driver and get x reconfigured properly. It is concerning to see that it can be exploited through a remote website though(according to Rapid7).
Along the same lines, while myspace definitely has a larger audience(more people couldn't possibly check the page out now that there has been a lawsuit) all the kids in the school will still *know* what these individuals think about their vice principal (which no amount of suing will change).
IMHO far too much fuss is being made over the situation.
To my knowledge, the main beneficiary of these colliders are string theorists (who deal with the smallest accepted particle constituents). Improving our understanding of string theory will hopefully trigger breakthroughs in other areas like materials science, Relativity/Quantum theory unification and other disciplines (which apply to the areas that you mention).
Yeah, GTA, Tekken and Gran Turismo (probably lots momre) didn't really sell that many copies..
I'm sure that FF games accounted for a big chunk of PS game sales, but there are a bunch of other good franchises out there.
Joke well taken, but in all honesty the bigger joke is that we technically could have had flying cars already. You know what the problem is? the general public couldn't be trusted not to crash the things left and right. In no time there would be more flying lawsuits than cars.
That is my answer as well. Instead of emailing them, you can post them on the company intranet or a wiki though. You could even throw together some html slides driven by javascript if you have the time.
:) Read his 2nd comment, above. You aren't emulating the behavior in your program, but letting one of php's db abstraction libraries handle it for you.
Unfortunately this is/. and not one has the interest and/or time to look behind every inflammatory article. All I have to say is that the company that I work for has been using PHP and PostgreSQL in unison and I haven't seen anything that makes me doubt the fitness of that combination.
Yep, I recall that episode. I actually brought up that one in class once as another episode that we could have covered, that one would have been better for philosophy of the mind though. Still, a great episode.
Hey, there's some good subject matter in Star Trek, especially TNG. In my philosophy of medicine class, we had a medical ethics paper on the episode where Worf has spinal replacement surgery;-)
It may not be high art, but I bet their aren't that many shows that are worthy of serious academic study.
Because M$ could send them your ip as well. If they keep any kind of logs of which IP you generally access MSN from, they could do at least as good of a job as the RIAA does (lucky you). Unless you always use a good proxy, there is a pretty good chance they could figure out who you are, if they tried.
I haven't got one yet myself, but I haven't heard many instability complaints other. A coworker is running a 3800+ with XP64 and he hasn't had any software problems that I've heard of (used for music, Oblivion, etc). You're right though, one bad driver install or component could be dragging down your entire system, I've seen it before.
That is perfectly true, but of course that will only really make a difference when you have 3-4 processes that are constantly consuming cpu time. You will still run into slow downs when one process starts blocking others like when the httpd has multiple requests waiting on a db transaction to complete, etc. Also, as another poster pointed out recently I think, it may be hard to provide enough memory and IO throughput to keep all 4 cores going at full steam.
It's simply a case of attacking a problem from multiple directions. Of course what you suggest is necessary, but Google(or anyone else) can't just reach into someone's computer to fix things up.
That's a good point, there are probably some things that Google can do to limit their liability though. Capturing a snapshot of the malware in question is probably a good start. The only problem then is bickering over the definition of what types of content actually are malware and the issue content from 3rd(4th?) party advertisers could also make things sticky.
No, then their current modell is much better, find a hole, report it and have it ignored by Microsoft for the next couple of months/years.
Those who are at this conference who do work as security professionals can't create any buzz or get attention if big holes are fixed before release. Like the GP suggests, just wait until Vista is released and then all this stuff is likely to come flying out of the woodwork, just in time to make some people money.
That may be the case, but what 95 brought to the table beyond 3.x was revolutionary. I don't think that you can say the same about XP and Vista. When Vista is deemed ready for release, it better have most of the quirks ironed out, otherwise we'll be seeing the slowest adoption rate of any MS OS (disregarding ME) in the last decade.
I'll concede the first two points.
On the last, I think that that would be a better scenario as it is harder to harm people with those types of weapons. As other posters have pointed out, it's harder to kill someone with a knife of club. You also have to option to run, or get help from from someone. Also, in the original examples that I posted, seems unlikely that any of the weapons that you mention would cause the same amount of harm to bystanders. I would hope at least that in north america we aren't at the stage where people would use firebombs in a large crowd or busy area.
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The few seconds it requires to restart a lot of daemons is much faster than the minute or two it takes to restart Linux. High availability systems aside, in a lot of single server solutions, a daemon restart will go unnoticed while a full system restart will not.
At least there is a way to avoid the problem. Half the time I can't be even bothered to install the driver and get x reconfigured properly. It is concerning to see that it can be exploited through a remote website though(according to Rapid7).
Along the same lines, while myspace definitely has a larger audience(more people couldn't possibly check the page out now that there has been a lawsuit) all the kids in the school will still *know* what these individuals think about their vice principal (which no amount of suing will change).
IMHO far too much fuss is being made over the situation.
Reminds me of that Douglass Coupland book. There's a hug machine for comforting mildly autistic nerds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPod
To my knowledge, the main beneficiary of these colliders are string theorists (who deal with the smallest accepted particle constituents). Improving our understanding of string theory will hopefully trigger breakthroughs in other areas like materials science, Relativity/Quantum theory unification and other disciplines (which apply to the areas that you mention).
Yeah, GTA, Tekken and Gran Turismo (probably lots momre) didn't really sell that many copies..
I'm sure that FF games accounted for a big chunk of PS game sales, but there are a bunch of other good franchises out there.
It's a bit harder to drive your car into the side of a highrise buidling.
Joke well taken, but in all honesty the bigger joke is that we technically could have had flying cars already. You know what the problem is? the general public couldn't be trusted not to crash the things left and right. In no time there would be more flying lawsuits than cars.
Probably a bad css upgrade I imagine. A bunch of the ads are sized/placed wrong as well.
That is my answer as well. Instead of emailing them, you can post them on the company intranet or a wiki though. You could even throw together some html slides driven by javascript if you have the time.
:) Read his 2nd comment, above. You aren't emulating the behavior in your program, but letting one of php's db abstraction libraries handle it for you.
Thanks for the clarification, that's a handy piece of information.
Unfortunately this is /. and not one has the interest and/or time to look behind every inflammatory article. All I have to say is that the company that I work for has been using PHP and PostgreSQL in unison and I haven't seen anything that makes me doubt the fitness of that combination.
Some innovations should be stifled. 'Innovation' itself is neither good or bad, but particular innovations sure can be one or the other..
Yep, I recall that episode. I actually brought up that one in class once as another episode that we could have covered, that one would have been better for philosophy of the mind though. Still, a great episode.
Hey, there's some good subject matter in Star Trek, especially TNG. In my philosophy of medicine class, we had a medical ethics paper on the episode where Worf has spinal replacement surgery ;-)
It may not be high art, but I bet their aren't that many shows that are worthy of serious academic study.
Because M$ could send them your ip as well. If they keep any kind of logs of which IP you generally access MSN from, they could do at least as good of a job as the RIAA does (lucky you). Unless you always use a good proxy, there is a pretty good chance they could figure out who you are, if they tried.
I haven't got one yet myself, but I haven't heard many instability complaints other. A coworker is running a 3800+ with XP64 and he hasn't had any software problems that I've heard of (used for music, Oblivion, etc). You're right though, one bad driver install or component could be dragging down your entire system, I've seen it before.
That is perfectly true, but of course that will only really make a difference when you have 3-4 processes that are constantly consuming cpu time. You will still run into slow downs when one process starts blocking others like when the httpd has multiple requests waiting on a db transaction to complete, etc. Also, as another poster pointed out recently I think, it may be hard to provide enough memory and IO throughput to keep all 4 cores going at full steam.
It's simply a case of attacking a problem from multiple directions. Of course what you suggest is necessary, but Google(or anyone else) can't just reach into someone's computer to fix things up.
That's a good point, there are probably some things that Google can do to limit their liability though. Capturing a snapshot of the malware in question is probably a good start. The only problem then is bickering over the definition of what types of content actually are malware and the issue content from 3rd(4th?) party advertisers could also make things sticky.
He will look like an ass though if he changes his tune but all the things that he complained about were not fixed ;-)
That may be the case, but what 95 brought to the table beyond 3.x was revolutionary. I don't think that you can say the same about XP and Vista. When Vista is deemed ready for release, it better have most of the quirks ironed out, otherwise we'll be seeing the slowest adoption rate of any MS OS (disregarding ME) in the last decade.
I'll concede the first two points.
On the last, I think that that would be a better scenario as it is harder to harm people with those types of weapons. As other posters have pointed out, it's harder to kill someone with a knife of club. You also have to option to run, or get help from from someone. Also, in the original examples that I posted, seems unlikely that any of the weapons that you mention would cause the same amount of harm to bystanders. I would hope at least that in north america we aren't at the stage where people would use firebombs in a large crowd or busy area.