Its in that place where i put that thing that time.
And there is nothing hotter than hacker Angelina Jolie sneaking into the guys bathroom to get a flappy disk full of secret documents from behind the condom machine.
They have a 9 gigabit connection dedicated to launching illegal DoS attacks. I wish I was joking. The quote from the article was something like:
"6000 Servers connected to 6 gigabits worth of connection".
Think about how much money there is behind that.
Or is it entirely possible that a company who has no trouble using a backdoor to host torrents would have no problem using a backdoor to host syn drones.
And what's the betting the FBI's interest is more in obtaining a copy of the DDoS attack software, rather than prosecuting? If the FBI is so incompetent that they actually would need to raid a company to find software capable of a syn flood....well then I'm pretty sure most of us can stop using strong encryption and just start hiding all of our files on floppy disks in the air conditioning vents behind the couch.
Of course, even at ~4.00 a gallon, it's still cheaper than 1 venti green tea frap at starbucks, which even with a b&n discount card at the one in the store costs 4.37. Gas is 3.97 here, so if I buy 8 fraps to get the same volume, it costs me $3.20 more, which is a lot closer to a second gallon of gas than it is to another stupid frap. Gas is over 80% cheaper by volume than Starbucks is. Yes, and Rice is Cheaper than Gold...what is your point?
People need (yes, hippies, need...unfortunately not everybody lives in their mom's house and works at the bagel shop that is 200 yards away when they're 40) gas. They do not need starschmucks.
When gas was 99c/gallon, people weren't all that interested in new fuel technology. Now with oil going up and up, I expect we'll finally start seeing some real break throughs in alternative energy research. Well....consumers weren't thinking about alternative fuel sources, but businesses sure as hell were. Businesses exist for one reason: money. Oil was the cheapest, most cost-effective way to get from Point A to Point B for a long, long time. It isn't as though energy-from-dandie-lions has existed for all this time, and the "big evil corporations" have been ignoring because they like pissing their money into the pockets of oil tycoons.
The rise is gas prices has caused consumers to start wanting hydrogen cars, but don't fool yourself into believing that energy companies haven't been pursing this as an alternative for years. Hydrogen might be cheap, but it won't be nearly as cheap as Oil at $20 a barrel.
If anything, tech seems like its speeding up (at least to me). We're seeing OSS projects going from things that nerds run on their home networks for fun in the their off time, to things that nerds run on their massive corporate networks for fun (and profit) during their on time.
Also, most of the old-time, tech-hating PHB types have retired, and big, corporate-network apps are starting to take over. "Email servers" have been replaced by "collaboration software". Telecommuting is becoming more and more common, video conferencing is starting to take hold with the adoption of VOIP.
If anything, I think that this is one of the most exciting times to be in tech, especially in the United States, and partially because of our economic downturn. Let me explain: our economy is taking a turn for the worse (I don't think anyone is arguing this point), and the reason is that we're either shipping low-income jobs overseas, or we're giving them to people who neither stay in the country, or keep any of their money here (migrant workers). This is causing normal, blue-collar type jobs to disappear, and causing higher-paying white-collar jobs to be created. We still RUN the business from the US..we just don't manufacture any of the goods here. We went from the boss having to communicate with the factory floor on the other side of the facility or a couple of floors down, to the boss having to communicate with the factory floor on the other side of the globe. The only way to achieve this global communication is by beefing up the networks, and developing better software.
The economic downturn is, in my opinion, fueling the tech market because it caters specifically to white-collar business.
On a slightly related note: Does anyone else think that...how do I put this...."nerdy stuff" becoming mainstream is hurting tech development overall? It used to be that nerdery was something that reclusive geeks could get together and do. It was their's and you had to be goddamned smart to participate. Lately, though, it seems like geeks are sortof taking a second seat to the exact type of trendy, photogenic, not that creative or inspiring people that we always HATED when i was just a young geek.
I didn't say that wearing a flag pin was an indication of patriotism. I said that its part of the uniform that a politician wears. Going out of your way NOT to wear one is disrespectful.
A recent poll in the US showed that 17% of people thought that the issue of whether a candidate wore a flag pin on his/her lapel was important. The fix for that is a bullet. Yes.
The point is that a president is more than just the leader of the country, they are the face that people are looking at as "The United States". The fact that Barack Obama refused to wear a flag pin (which is an implied part of the uniform, yes uniform) is the same as if he insisted on wearing jeans that sagged half off of his ass, a mohawk, an old shitty t-shirt from the 90s, and some nasty old crappy skate shoes or something.
Wearing it as a politician is the same as wearing a suit. Not do so is disrespectful.
Look, if they're doing this to save money, then great, good for them. If they're doing it to help our economy by keeping everything in house (and not installing a pipeline of cash from here to Saudi Arabia) then awesome! But if they're doing this to somehow trick themselves into believing that they are "helping the cause" then they need to pull their head out of their ass.
We NEED hydrogen power. Not fuel cells, not batteries, combustion of hydrogen and oxygen into water. Electrolysis is not difficult.
Step 1: Build nuclear power plant Step 2: Split salt water into hydrogen and oxygen Step 3: Profit Step 4: Goto 1
This crap that we're doing right now is hurting the problem. Driving a Prius isn't helping, buying a hybrid Chevy Suburban isn't helping. Elect officials that build mass transit systems. Our cities our built with the assumption that people can very cheaply get from one end of it to the other, but they can't anymore.
Priuses and other hybrids are not addressing the root of the problem, which is our assumption of cheap transportation. THAT is what we need to cure. The neo-hippies with their lattes and they horn rimmed glasses are not helping the cause, they're hurting it by buying into a false reality and encouraging others to do so.
The middle of it isn't a key for hex. The values repeat in the middle, which would be unnecessary for a key. Also, there is no value for "A" which is part of hex.
Most state universities have a Surplus Property building where they will auction this kind of stuff off to you. YOu can almost always get a dirt dirt cheap too. There is a 14 bay disk array full of 80gb disks that i bought (with disks) at surplus for $150. I can get dual P3 4gb Ram proliants 1Us for with 32gb scsis for $150.
Make friends with the dean, and convince them that their Univ. needs to do the same.
What I'm wondering if these things have a throttle? If so is a landing possible without chute? I would imagine that without a landing gear of some sort (i don't there there are TOO many people that can run as fast as that thing needs to go to generate enough lift to stay airborne) it would be only slightly more difficult than landing an F-16 with its nose pointed to the sky and its thrust nozzles laying on the tarmac.
only 80Gbps with 5 million subscribers? Those 5 million subscribers are not all using their connections concurrently. Think about what just happened when I loaded this webpage: it downloaded a text file full of HTML/CSS/Javascript/Whatever else slashdot uses, and now it sits here while I type this comment. I'm not using my connection right now, and won't be using it again until I hit the submit button.
Yep, and how much were computers, originally? The price on these will drop when enough of them are bought. No it won't. There is realistically only a market for a handful of these worldwide. Not several million of them like PCs. Its exactly like cisco hardware, it has remained astronomically expensive simply because only a very small select group of people (network admins) actually buy them.
My guess would be that they already do, and have been doing, this for years.
And if they're not, do you know how much many computers $1 Billion buys? Now just a few of them in every data center you can find and slap a copy of the Patriot Act on the front. Tell anyone that if they go near them, or question what they are for you will shoot them on the spot. Also tell verizon, qwest, etc. that they have to provide you with bandwidth free of charge.
unless it gets banned on a massive scale due to lost telco profits. I know this might not be a popular opinion around here, but if the telcos want to be jackasses about their network....isn't it sortof their right to be (assuming the own it)? Granted some of the networks have been built with taxpayer money, but the routers all belong to the telco. I don't like the fact that they do things like throttle bittorrent or try to kill off streaming Video, but it is (at least in theory) a free market.
How do you know that they don't already have the keys to the aforementioned protocols? Because they're the same protocols and encryption suites used by the NSA (who develops a lot of them). Whenever they find a big or vuln. in an encryption they always release the fix for it.
The NSA has an interest in strong security too. If there is ANY loophole in the encryption (even one that the tin-foil hat crowd thinks they put there) it would be exploitable by the enemy as well.
HOnestly, if the NSA wants to sniff your communications, it would be a lot easier for them to just break into your house and install a sniffer inline between your keyboard and your puter. No I am not talking about the hardware keyloggers you see online for $50.
What the hell does this have to do with ipods? They're building a supercomputer out of low-power MIPS procs..
embedded processors were, believe it or not, NOT invented by apple. I don't know if its true or not (i doubt it) but I've also heard that there were portable electronics BEFORE the ipod.
This is really cool, but slashot, come-on...most of us here are geeks, we don't need to have the word "ipod" tacked onto the end to indicate that we're talking about something small.
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Its in that place where i put that thing that time.
And there is nothing hotter than hacker Angelina Jolie sneaking into the guys bathroom to get a flappy disk full of secret documents from behind the condom machine.
"6000 Servers connected to 6 gigabits worth of connection".
Think about how much money there is behind that.
Or is it entirely possible that a company who has no trouble using a backdoor to host torrents would have no problem using a backdoor to host syn drones.
Hardly a Last.fm ripoff. Imeem has quite a bit MORE music, as well as a much more intuitive interface.
btw this is my last.fm page: Blhack
and this is my imeem.com page: Blhack
Point being that I've been around last for quite some time....its not just a pointless slashvertisement for imeem.
People need (yes, hippies, need...unfortunately not everybody lives in their mom's house and works at the bagel shop that is 200 yards away when they're 40) gas. They do not need starschmucks.
This is a troll....right?
Please, tell me this is a troll.
GET OFF MY LAWN YOU SON OF A BITCH!
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The rise is gas prices has caused consumers to start wanting hydrogen cars, but don't fool yourself into believing that energy companies haven't been pursing this as an alternative for years. Hydrogen might be cheap, but it won't be nearly as cheap as Oil at $20 a barrel.
If anything, tech seems like its speeding up (at least to me). We're seeing OSS projects going from things that nerds run on their home networks for fun in the their off time, to things that nerds run on their massive corporate networks for fun (and profit) during their on time.
Also, most of the old-time, tech-hating PHB types have retired, and big, corporate-network apps are starting to take over. "Email servers" have been replaced by "collaboration software". Telecommuting is becoming more and more common, video conferencing is starting to take hold with the adoption of VOIP.
If anything, I think that this is one of the most exciting times to be in tech, especially in the United States, and partially because of our economic downturn. Let me explain: our economy is taking a turn for the worse (I don't think anyone is arguing this point), and the reason is that we're either shipping low-income jobs overseas, or we're giving them to people who neither stay in the country, or keep any of their money here (migrant workers). This is causing normal, blue-collar type jobs to disappear, and causing higher-paying white-collar jobs to be created. We still RUN the business from the US..we just don't manufacture any of the goods here.
We went from the boss having to communicate with the factory floor on the other side of the facility or a couple of floors down, to the boss having to communicate with the factory floor on the other side of the globe. The only way to achieve this global communication is by beefing up the networks, and developing better software.
The economic downturn is, in my opinion, fueling the tech market because it caters specifically to white-collar business.
On a slightly related note:
Does anyone else think that...how do I put this...."nerdy stuff" becoming mainstream is hurting tech development overall? It used to be that nerdery was something that reclusive geeks could get together and do. It was their's and you had to be goddamned smart to participate. Lately, though, it seems like geeks are sortof taking a second seat to the exact type of trendy, photogenic, not that creative or inspiring people that we always HATED when i was just a young geek.
Maybe you mis-read my post.
I didn't say that wearing a flag pin was an indication of patriotism. I said that its part of the uniform that a politician wears. Going out of your way NOT to wear one is disrespectful.
The point is that a president is more than just the leader of the country, they are the face that people are looking at as "The United States". The fact that Barack Obama refused to wear a flag pin (which is an implied part of the uniform, yes uniform) is the same as if he insisted on wearing jeans that sagged half off of his ass, a mohawk, an old shitty t-shirt from the 90s, and some nasty old crappy skate shoes or something.
Wearing it as a politician is the same as wearing a suit. Not do so is disrespectful.
Algae is made out of carbon!
Don't anybody tell the hippies!
Look, if they're doing this to save money, then great, good for them. If they're doing it to help our economy by keeping everything in house (and not installing a pipeline of cash from here to Saudi Arabia) then awesome! But if they're doing this to somehow trick themselves into believing that they are "helping the cause" then they need to pull their head out of their ass.
We NEED hydrogen power. Not fuel cells, not batteries, combustion of hydrogen and oxygen into water. Electrolysis is not difficult.
Step 1: Build nuclear power plant
Step 2: Split salt water into hydrogen and oxygen
Step 3: Profit
Step 4: Goto 1
This crap that we're doing right now is hurting the problem. Driving a Prius isn't helping, buying a hybrid Chevy Suburban isn't helping. Elect officials that build mass transit systems. Our cities our built with the assumption that people can very cheaply get from one end of it to the other, but they can't anymore.
Priuses and other hybrids are not addressing the root of the problem, which is our assumption of cheap transportation. THAT is what we need to cure. The neo-hippies with their lattes and they horn rimmed glasses are not helping the cause, they're hurting it by buying into a false reality and encouraging others to do so.
The middle of it isn't a key for hex. The values repeat in the middle, which would be unnecessary for a key. Also, there is no value for "A" which is part of hex.
The top is binary, ||| || | = 11101101
Most state universities have a Surplus Property building where they will auction this kind of stuff off to you. YOu can almost always get a dirt dirt cheap too. There is a 14 bay disk array full of 80gb disks that i bought (with disks) at surplus for $150. I can get dual P3 4gb Ram proliants 1Us for with 32gb scsis for $150.
Make friends with the dean, and convince them that their Univ. needs to do the same.
Telescopes!?
Imagine if you had a Beowulf cluster of..
oh...
yeah, I'll show myself out.
I thought it was common knowledge that there was a massive FibreBone coming into an old 486 running Squid and Squidguard?
Does anyone remember project Magic Lantern?
My guess would be that they already do, and have been doing, this for years.
And if they're not, do you know how much many computers $1 Billion buys? Now just a few of them in every data center you can find and slap a copy of the Patriot Act on the front. Tell anyone that if they go near them, or question what they are for you will shoot them on the spot. Also tell verizon, qwest, etc. that they have to provide you with bandwidth free of charge.
It is for this reason that i have OpenVPN and a running SSH server on my laptop.
And yes, the endpoint is firewalled off...so thieves shall not be sneaking into my network over it.
The NSA has an interest in strong security too. If there is ANY loophole in the encryption (even one that the tin-foil hat crowd thinks they put there) it would be exploitable by the enemy as well.
HOnestly, if the NSA wants to sniff your communications, it would be a lot easier for them to just break into your house and install a sniffer inline between your keyboard and your puter. No I am not talking about the hardware keyloggers you see online for $50.
What the hell does this have to do with ipods? They're building a supercomputer out of low-power MIPS procs..
embedded processors were, believe it or not, NOT invented by apple. I don't know if its true or not (i doubt it) but I've also heard that there were portable electronics BEFORE the ipod.
This is really cool, but slashot, come-on...most of us here are geeks, we don't need to have the word "ipod" tacked onto the end to indicate that we're talking about something small.