That story gives me the creeps. What sort of a holiday has this turned into? It's all about consumption and greed for some apparently. These kids seem to have learned their own meanings at an early age.
I hope the little brats get punished but good.
I noticed some posts blaming the "Santa". That's absurd.
Well, hotmail still isn't working, at least for me. When I try to access www.hotmail.com I get the error "Unable to locate server lc1.law5.hotmail.passport.com. Is it possible my DNS cache still isn't updated? It's been several days now...
Compounded with the fact that first you have to make a list of several Macs with the bug who's total bandwidth is at least equal to yours, otherwise you are being no more effective than a ping flood.
In order to perform a worthy DOS though, you would need to
a) Have a very long list of Mac's running OS9
b) Send out a lot of UPD packets
In fact, you would have to send out as many packets as the attacked server will recieve. So basically, you have to have enough bandwidth to withstand your own DOS attack. Of course it does have the advantage of hiding your IP, but it sounds no more effective than "ping -f".
"It's of no concern to me with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but I know that World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein
"A normal telegraph is like a large cat with it's tail in New York and it's mouth in LA. When you pull the tail in New York, the cat squaks in LA. A wireless telegraph is the same thing, but without the cat." - Albert Einstein
I agree with you completely. I look up to Einstein, but I think people like Hitler had a larger effect this century.
That's especially hard for me to say, being Jewish and knowing very closely the extent of his atrocities. But the fact is, he had more influence than Einstein.
You are enormously incorrect. You are simply buying the popular stereotype of an intelligent scientist. Einstein was in fact very practical. He was very social. He was even offered presidency of Israel. Of course, if you knew anything about him instead of rambling on and perpetuating the stereotype, you would know that already.
With so many people complaining about "decreasing quality" of slashdot stories recently, I must say that this is a great one! Chess and slashdot go very well together.
Just look up (or down depending on the moderation) and see that the comments are of a supreme quality, and the discussions are very intellectual. Not too much name-calling or bashing here.
How many people like the idea of having more chess stories on slashdot? Let's just maybe get an informal poll here. Maybe we could have chess (or otherwise) puzzles linked to more often. Solving puzzles is certainly a trait shared by many nerds.
The articly says that Leonardo Finance patented the use of their name in france, but the gallary is in San Fransico.
This lawsuit madness has reached epic proportions recently. As a friend of mine puts it, whenever anybody get's mad, you get "sue-age of the legal variety". And it sure does stink.
A while ago we saw a petition against taxes and levies on blank CDs. I think now we need a petition for patent reform. This is just getting too low!
I think I would be much more at ease if I were reading this in some reputable scientifically oriented source, like SCIAM. Even a big name like CNN or New York Times would have been better. This seems like some type of liberal arts hippy site, and I think the editors are being optimistic.
I met him at a talk in Vancouver once, and talked to him afterwards. Several things struck me. He does seem to have a sense of humour in many way, but he is also very obbsessive about many things. For example, don't ever talk about "Open Source" software, only "Free Software".
"Ajay Puri... is comfortable working on the computer using software such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook Express. He is also Internet savvy."
Is there a major shortage of competent company executives out there? If I put "Internet savvy." and "Ability to use software." on my resume, am I going to become (god forbid) a highly paid Microsoft employee?
Hey, it's nice this kid knows how to email, but is that all you need nowadays?
Perhaps, given this telling comment: "For a moment I envied him that he could do all that an older executive could." Does this mean to say that Microsoft's Board of Directors has to make tech support calls to "fix my browser's 404 error"? (probably not, I doubt it's called "404" in IE).
I just find this all pretty sickening. I can't believe what passes for "computer-savvy" nowadays. All those hours writing code wasted... they could have been so much better spent memorizing the menu-hierarchy of Outlook Express (c).
Kid, don't listen to the dark side! There's more to a computer than (I)Explorer and Office!
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I hope the little brats get punished but good.
I noticed some posts blaming the "Santa". That's absurd.
Just because it's already been said in the comments doesn't mean I wasn't the first to say it. Read the time stamps.
Well, hotmail still isn't working, at least for me. When I try to access www.hotmail.com I get the error "Unable to locate server lc1.law5.hotmail.passport.com. Is it possible my DNS cache still isn't updated? It's been several days now...
Microsoft of all companies should be able to afford their own $35 DNS fees!
Compounded with the fact that first you have to make a list of several Macs with the bug who's total bandwidth is at least equal to yours, otherwise you are being no more effective than a ping flood.
a) Have a very long list of Mac's running OS9
b) Send out a lot of UPD packets
In fact, you would have to send out as many packets as the attacked server will recieve. So basically, you have to have enough bandwidth to withstand your own DOS attack. Of course it does have the advantage of hiding your IP, but it sounds no more effective than "ping -f".
Who's quality was all too catchy.
Our good old friend Bull
His milk did he spill
When he heard of this market share banshee.
Well, at least I tried. :)
"It's of no concern to me with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but I know that World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein
"A normal telegraph is like a large cat with it's tail in New York and it's mouth in LA. When you pull the tail in New York, the cat squaks in LA. A wireless telegraph is the same thing, but without the cat." - Albert Einstein
That's especially hard for me to say, being Jewish and knowing very closely the extent of his atrocities. But the fact is, he had more influence than Einstein.
Yuck.
Perhaps you got him confused with Paul Erdos.
Just look up (or down depending on the moderation) and see that the comments are of a supreme quality, and the discussions are very intellectual. Not too much name-calling or bashing here.
How many people like the idea of having more chess stories on slashdot? Let's just maybe get an informal poll here. Maybe we could have chess (or otherwise) puzzles linked to more often. Solving puzzles is certainly a trait shared by many nerds.
Let's make it a habit. Who's with me?
What a load of bull! How much do you want to bed that they didn't turn on the SMP option in the kernel?
it's a V2 server.
so go fuck yourselves. go play at segfault instead, windows using script kiddie hacker wannabes
see "First recursive post"
What a pile of chicken shit!
This lawsuit madness has reached epic proportions recently. As a friend of mine puts it, whenever anybody get's mad, you get "sue-age of the legal variety". And it sure does stink.
A while ago we saw a petition against taxes and levies on blank CDs. I think now we need a petition for patent reform. This is just getting too low!
I think I would be much more at ease if I were reading this in some reputable scientifically oriented source, like SCIAM. Even a big name like CNN or New York Times would have been better. This seems like some type of liberal arts hippy site, and I think the editors are being optimistic.
I met him at a talk in Vancouver once, and talked to him afterwards. Several things struck me. He does seem to have a sense of humour in many way, but he is also very obbsessive about many things. For example, don't ever talk about "Open Source" software, only "Free Software".
Here's the web server's IP: 146.101.248.205
... he'll go to a college with worstations (ms user: "Ooooh") running X (ms user: "wooaahh") on a unix (ms user: "does that come with or without IE?")
Hey, take him to redmond. Just don't mention KDE in the interview.
"Ajay Puri ... is comfortable working on the computer using software such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook Express. He is also Internet savvy."
Is there a major shortage of competent company executives out there? If I put "Internet savvy." and "Ability to use software." on my resume, am I going to become (god forbid) a highly paid Microsoft employee?
Hey, it's nice this kid knows how to email, but is that all you need nowadays?
Perhaps, given this telling comment: "For a moment I envied him that he could do all that an older executive could." Does this mean to say that Microsoft's Board of Directors has to make tech support calls to "fix my browser's 404 error"? (probably not, I doubt it's called "404" in IE).
I just find this all pretty sickening. I can't believe what passes for "computer-savvy" nowadays. All those hours writing code wasted... they could have been so much better spent memorizing the menu-hierarchy of Outlook Express (c).
Kid, don't listen to the dark side! There's more to a computer than (I)Explorer and Office!
darn. That also seems to have been taken down. :(