I thought they were using syn floods... maybe they should claim ownership of the SYN bit instead... and by the way, did open source TCP/IP stack hackers come up with ways of minimizing the impact of a DDoS years ago?
The US government spent US citizens tax dollars to develop the internet (TCP/IP was a DARPA research project.) Why then should they turn control of the internet over to a bunch of stuffed shirts you did nothing to help create it?
The more government gets involved with anything, the more fucked up it gets. Uh, the US government designed and built the internet in the first place! Ever heard of a little something called to Department of Defense, that funded DARPA that created the TCP/IP protocol. The internet was a great place back when it was a playground for academics and government contractors; it didn't get really fucked up until commerical interests like AOL decided they should try and make a quick buck off of it. (In a sense, you're correct though -- the bureaucrats were pretty hands-off about the initial work on the internet, probably because they didn't see any potential value in it.)
Microsoft has previously said that it would attempt to make its patching process more intuitive and easy to use.
I guess that's a lot easier than making their patching process unnecessary, or even necessary less often... Isn't this sort of like GM saying "We're making our new cars much easier to tow when they break down!"
My father bought 3 emachines for various family members. Within a year, none of them were working. I don't know where they get their parts, but I suspect it's from other companies reject piles. There has got to be a reason why these machines are so cheap -- and quite frankly, my time is too valuable to waste it on flakey hardware.
If we bothered to think globally and start educating and feeding the world properly then we wouldn't need any kind of system at all -- at least not on this scale. Yes, we should do that, but that only protects us from sane people. Insane people could still threaten us. Mutual Assured Destruction worked for many years because... well, mainly because the Russians are sane. We are now faced with enemies for whom retaliation is not a deterrent.
A third of the planet hasn't even made a telephone call yet, for fuck's sake. And that's a bad thing? Personally, I wish my wife, who spends about half of her waking hours on the phone, was amongst that 1/3 of the planet. Perhaps if people were busy tending their own gardens instead of talking on the phone, we wouldn't need to be "feeding the world properly". As far as education, what really seperates the developed world from the third world? One major difference is that we have free public education, whereas most third world countries do not. Granted, we should be helping, but is it really our responsibility to go into other countries and build their school systems for them? And if we do, won't that inevitably lead to the promotion of McCulture everywhere? (The money has got to come from somewhere -- why not corporate sponsership?) Ultimately, I think people need to care enough about their own children to do things for themselves, not wait for Uncle Sam and friends to fix all their problems for them.
Star Wars only protects against ICBMs. Anybody that has the capacity to lauch ICBMs won't, because it would be obvious where they come from, and they fear retaliation. The real threat is from low-flying vehicles, not ICBMs. Drones, cruise missles, RC planes, even Cessna 180s could be used to deliver a payload -- and the "missile defense sheild" wouldn't help at all. We don't need to protect ourselves from weapon systems flying 10 miles up -- we need to protect ourselves from weapon systems flying 10 feet over the waves.
Actually, there is evidence of a great flood that created the Black Sea 5000 years ago... the evidence being the remnants of villages 100 feet below the surface. Yes, I beleive the Noah story is apocryphal, but the flood story occurs in many, many different cultures... and perhaps it does have a bit of truth to it. There would have to have at least a few families that survived by moving to higher ground before the wave of water hit (an Ark wouldn't have been necessary or effective), thus giving rise to stories that mutated over generations of oral history.
I'd be more interested in a device I can stack several audio CDs into at once so I can rip them all to MP3/FLAC/whatever without manually inserting each one. Does anybody else out there with a ~1000 CD collection feel this way?
By the way, the cheapest way of storing 400 CDs worth of bits is probably a RAID array of hard drives set up for mirroring... some motherboards now support RAID out of the box. 400 CDs x 700MBytes/CD = 280GBytes; that should be no problem. 400 DVDs, on the other hand, would be over 1600Gbytes, that could get pricey... but I don't know anybody who has THAT much porn!
If Alien were trying to communicate with use why wouldn't they use radio/tv signals that would get out attention.
Well, for one, the 100 million year Round-Trip-Time might be a hinderance to effective communication. As in, by the time you get the response, the receiver no longer exists, or at best you've probably forgotten the question! To say nothing of how frustrating a response of "Uh, I didn't quite catch that... could you repeat please?" would be after waiting that long...
Radio transmissions travel at the speed of light. Nanoprobes don't. The radio transmissions would reach us long before the nanoprobes, even if the nanoprobes were sent first. Apparently Kurzweil doesn't comprehend how truly, staggeringly large Space is...
No, if there is intelligent life out there, they are just waiting for us to develop the technology for them to be able to "phone" us; there is nothing they can gain by visiting in person that they couldn't gain by simply talking to us, and faster-than-light transmission of information is a lot more likely than faster-than-light transportation of living beings...
On the other hand, the simulation we're living in may not have the capacity to emulate entire alien cultures...
If Jesus comes back and happens to make a slight positive comment regarding Linux, wouldn't you like to be holding some Red Hat stock at that moment?Hey, just 'cause some guys dad is God doesn't mean he has any special insight into the stock market! I mean, it's not like he's the Son of Alan Greenspan or anything!
Not a good analogy. The RIAA has clear-cut evidence before it sends out subpeonas, and some of the best laws money can buy supporting it's position. SCO is threatening to send out invoices based a whole series of convoluted interpretations of contracts and law that know sane person would arrive at, unless their overwhelming sense of greed overrode any logic they were capable of. It's really not the same. Bzzzzt! Goobye, thanks for playing!
No, SCO was going to go bankrupt anyway, so going bankrupt doesn't punish them at all. In fact, many SCO corporate officers have sold their stock at vastly inflated prices due to the fraud they are perpetuating as long as possible (remember, it went from $0.60/share to $16/share). So they have in fact profited. No, the only way to discourage others from this type of activity is to make an example out of owners of SCO.
Quick, somebody send the Judge a fully loaded, top of the line Linux PC as a present... then a few days later, send him a note stating: "By the way, you owe SCO $699!"
No, SCO has seriously damaged IBM's business, taking money out of their pockets. IBM needs to make an example out of them, preferably getting the SEC involved. You DON'T want to send the signal that "playing the Linux lottery" has no downside; that would only encourage other slimey types with no viable business model to attempt simular tactics. Oh, and if IBM is anything like Intel, their lawyers get paid the same regardless of whether or not they crush SCO into greasy pink pancakes, so letting SCO off easy won't save IBM any money.
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I thought they were using syn floods... maybe they should claim ownership of the SYN bit instead... and by the way, did open source TCP/IP stack hackers come up with ways of minimizing the impact of a DDoS years ago?
The US government spent US citizens tax dollars to develop the internet (TCP/IP was a DARPA research project.) Why then should they turn control of the internet over to a bunch of stuffed shirts you did nothing to help create it?
The more government gets involved with anything, the more fucked up it gets. Uh, the US government designed and built the internet in the first place! Ever heard of a little something called to Department of Defense, that funded DARPA that created the TCP/IP protocol. The internet was a great place back when it was a playground for academics and government contractors; it didn't get really fucked up until commerical interests like AOL decided they should try and make a quick buck off of it. (In a sense, you're correct though -- the bureaucrats were pretty hands-off about the initial work on the internet, probably because they didn't see any potential value in it.)
I guess that's a lot easier than making their patching process unnecessary, or even necessary less often... Isn't this sort of like GM saying "We're making our new cars much easier to tow when they break down!"
Athlon XP 3200 $333
You're right, all other things being equal, these machines should only cost $66 more.
Isn't that sorta like a Chevy Vega with a supercharged V8?
My father bought 3 emachines for various family members. Within a year, none of them were working. I don't know where they get their parts, but I suspect it's from other companies reject piles. There has got to be a reason why these machines are so cheap -- and quite frankly, my time is too valuable to waste it on flakey hardware.
A third of the planet hasn't even made a telephone call yet, for fuck's sake. And that's a bad thing? Personally, I wish my wife, who spends about half of her waking hours on the phone, was amongst that 1/3 of the planet. Perhaps if people were busy tending their own gardens instead of talking on the phone, we wouldn't need to be "feeding the world properly". As far as education, what really seperates the developed world from the third world? One major difference is that we have free public education, whereas most third world countries do not. Granted, we should be helping, but is it really our responsibility to go into other countries and build their school systems for them? And if we do, won't that inevitably lead to the promotion of McCulture everywhere? (The money has got to come from somewhere -- why not corporate sponsership?) Ultimately, I think people need to care enough about their own children to do things for themselves, not wait for Uncle Sam and friends to fix all their problems for them.
Some of those people with beachfront homes might object...
Star Wars only protects against ICBMs. Anybody that has the capacity to lauch ICBMs won't, because it would be obvious where they come from, and they fear retaliation. The real threat is from low-flying vehicles, not ICBMs. Drones, cruise missles, RC planes, even Cessna 180s could be used to deliver a payload -- and the "missile defense sheild" wouldn't help at all. We don't need to protect ourselves from weapon systems flying 10 miles up -- we need to protect ourselves from weapon systems flying 10 feet over the waves.
Only if they already have the warheads...
Actually, there is evidence of a great flood that created the Black Sea 5000 years ago... the evidence being the remnants of villages 100 feet below the surface. Yes, I beleive the Noah story is apocryphal, but the flood story occurs in many, many different cultures... and perhaps it does have a bit of truth to it. There would have to have at least a few families that survived by moving to higher ground before the wave of water hit (an Ark wouldn't have been necessary or effective), thus giving rise to stories that mutated over generations of oral history.
Perhaps they're a culture with much better slingshots yet much worse electronics expertise?
By the way, the cheapest way of storing 400 CDs worth of bits is probably a RAID array of hard drives set up for mirroring... some motherboards now support RAID out of the box. 400 CDs x 700MBytes/CD = 280GBytes; that should be no problem. 400 DVDs, on the other hand, would be over 1600Gbytes, that could get pricey... but I don't know anybody who has THAT much porn!
the only problem with harddrives is they inevitably fail. That's why they invented RAID.
Damn! That must take more memory to store than the average slashdotter's mp3 and porn collections combined!
Well, for one, the 100 million year Round-Trip-Time might be a hinderance to effective communication. As in, by the time you get the response, the receiver no longer exists, or at best you've probably forgotten the question! To say nothing of how frustrating a response of "Uh, I didn't quite catch that... could you repeat please?" would be after waiting that long...
"Some people are searching the heavens for signs of intelligent life. I still haven't given up hope of finding it on this planet!" -- Lily Tomlin
No, if there is intelligent life out there, they are just waiting for us to develop the technology for them to be able to "phone" us; there is nothing they can gain by visiting in person that they couldn't gain by simply talking to us, and faster-than-light transmission of information is a lot more likely than faster-than-light transportation of living beings...
On the other hand, the simulation we're living in may not have the capacity to emulate entire alien cultures...
If Jesus comes back and happens to make a slight positive comment regarding Linux, wouldn't you like to be holding some Red Hat stock at that moment?Hey, just 'cause some guys dad is God doesn't mean he has any special insight into the stock market! I mean, it's not like he's the Son of Alan Greenspan or anything!
Not a good analogy. The RIAA has clear-cut evidence before it sends out subpeonas, and some of the best laws money can buy supporting it's position. SCO is threatening to send out invoices based a whole series of convoluted interpretations of contracts and law that know sane person would arrive at, unless their overwhelming sense of greed overrode any logic they were capable of. It's really not the same. Bzzzzt! Goobye, thanks for playing!
No, SCO was going to go bankrupt anyway, so going bankrupt doesn't punish them at all. In fact, many SCO corporate officers have sold their stock at vastly inflated prices due to the fraud they are perpetuating as long as possible (remember, it went from $0.60/share to $16/share). So they have in fact profited. No, the only way to discourage others from this type of activity is to make an example out of owners of SCO.
"So, SCO, how many patents do you hold? One?!? I'll see your one and raise you 40,000!!! Bwa-hahaha!"
Quick, somebody send the Judge a fully loaded, top of the line Linux PC as a present... then a few days later, send him a note stating: "By the way, you owe SCO $699!"
No, SCO has seriously damaged IBM's business, taking money out of their pockets. IBM needs to make an example out of them, preferably getting the SEC involved. You DON'T want to send the signal that "playing the Linux lottery" has no downside; that would only encourage other slimey types with no viable business model to attempt simular tactics. Oh, and if IBM is anything like Intel, their lawyers get paid the same regardless of whether or not they crush SCO into greasy pink pancakes, so letting SCO off easy won't save IBM any money.