Whatever the case is, its a nasty piece of work. Theres precious little that'll stand up to that thing focusing fire on a target. Actually, I heard that in an attempt to bolster its strength, it posts stories on slashdot that link to security companies sites. If it can't take our Mac, BSD, and *nix boxes, it'll just have to do some social engineering! Did you notice every time someone has new information about storm, we end up slashdotting it?:)
I was only kidding when I started writing this, but on second thought... manual override of slashdot via front page stories isn't such a bad idea... Let's post a story about Mcaffee as a trial run!
Sounds like a nightmare! If you ever get the chance or have the option to, try flying JetBlue. I'm a broke college student and my mom is 1500 miles away from me; they're cheap, mostly on time (I think out of the 4 flights I've had with them, 1 was delayed for about 20 minutes... the plane was parked in the wrong terminal. Don't know whose fault that was, the flight was out of Newark.) and despite only having a small fleet of small planes, they're fairly new. They also had a flight status that showed the plane on top of a google map, with current speed and altitude - I was reading "The Joy of C", so my inner geek was nearly giddy between the book and google maps. Checking in with them is painless, and since they're such a small company, there's never a line at the counter.
I thought there was an article about this very subject about 2 months ago or so IIRC, and I thought the slashdot consensus was that if we were able to create these black holes (which was of slim chance), they would depart gracefully and all would be well. Thanks, I'm going to sleep well at my desk in the morning.
Can you confirm that the math is correct on this (with respect to the constraints on upper and lower limits) and that 1 second is a viable time frame for a black holes existence at this size and mass? I'm rather hoping someone will come back with, something to the effect of "nah, we can't create one that big and it would only last for half a nanosecond". Otherwise I'm moving to Mars.
As a side note... Every time we 'play' with something we don't understand, what seems to happen? We get people killed or it's a great discovery that we figure out how to use to kill people that look different than us.
Yeah, and he, more importantly, crossed state lines to make his point. Anyone who has ever had a...ahem colorful... past knows that you don't want to make it a federal issue if it doesn't have to be.
It would have been better for him to break in to a computer in China (or Cuba, North Korea, etc.) and then from there break in to the 911 dispatch center in another state.
I think you need to have some caffeine and come back when your jittery enough for the rest of us to understand you.
If there is a Starbucks in the area - run in, cut to the front of the line and scream, "I'm a programmer! No caffeine! Emergency!". They'll hook you up with an Avanti sized, triple espresso, Frappuccino with some extra sugar... in the form of a fast drip IV.
When a machine gets infected, the virus usually patches the system so that it own it without the intervention of other malware. These guys, unfortunately, aren't stupid; sadly, an infected computer is probably more patched than most (not yet) infected boxes. After you steal something, you tend to defend it so that it remains in your possession.
It would be ideal for them to wait, but that won't sell any magazines if their competitors are covering tech. before it comes out. Especially tech. heavy magazines expected to be on the bleeding edge.
I think it was awfully big of Pogue to openly admit the prices were wrong (despite it not being his fault that the company essentially lied to him), and address the issue, rather than submitting a correction that would get filed on the back page.
He could have also put his hands in his pockets and whistled while rocking back and forth, and hoped no one noticed or said anything. It's rare to see journalists point out when they're wrong (I'm glaring at you, Dvorak!), without being at knife point.
I think being open for development isn't enough, you also need to spend a couple $100 million or so in marketing...
If only... if only google had a bunch of money lying around, or access to some sort of communications medium that could present advertising to a wide audience? Perhaps some day, my friend, perhaps some day. Until then, we'll just have to be fanboys and spread the news ourselves. I'm going to start by buying some adwords from... oh, nevermind;).
...As for my son, he got an F for the quarter, so I told him if he brings that up to a B, and keeps all As in the other subjects, I will buy him a video iPod. Of course that elevated to, "if I get straight As, will you buy me an iPhone?". Man, kids these days! Well, meet him half way; agree to those terms on the provision that if he attempts the straight A's to get an iPhone and falls short, he'll be receiving a brown Zune instead of an iPod.;) (it'll be a good lesson in compromising:))
This kind of thing doesn't work. It's been shown time and again. Microsoft's Steve Ballmer is becoming the laughing stock of the tech industry.
That's just the problem - the tech community. Those who understand it, don't manage it; those who manage it don't understand it. I wish there were some way around this, but I'm not going to manage it... I'd rather be writing code than anything managerial, how about you?
I didn't know Sony opened their rootkit source. You'll have to forgive me for not reading on about the Open Invention Network, as their first entry in the member list left a bad taste in my mouth. Can't we trade them over to Microsoft's side? I'll even take Bill Hilf and Microsoft's Open Source division in place of Sony.
I assume when you say P2P you mean torrents. I'm fairly sure that there are numerous ways that torrents classify a connection. The most important characteristics of a connection (from what little I know about the protocol), are the ones which enumerate your abilities to share a given file. I think that the following are heavily weighted attributes when chunks are assigned to and from peers:
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a trebuchet loaded with a metric ton of backup tapes. No, but as I try to explain to my boss time and time again, it's the latency that kills you. Well, not in this example; my code backups of 'helloWorld', in twenty languages and many obscene and/or obscure thoughts inside of comment blocks, will hit you like a metric tonne... of, well, tapes. If you're lucky it'll be a QIC death;).
You see, that parcel must actually traverse four dimensions en route to the intended (or unintended, for that matter) target. One of those dimensions happens to be time. Thermodynamics dictates that this dimension 'points' in a single direction and therefore cannot be reversed.
This means that I cannot possibly have "all those backups we have replace the corrupted files sixty seconds ago"; these things take time. Especially when I said that we shouldn't be mounting writable data in RAID 0 without an UPS. Stand on this 'X' while I have the tapes sent to you.
I salute you... just a paragraph before you abruptly finished, you had me pacing the room going, "...who is this expert?! Has he ever passed out on top of an open computer at 4:30 AM, surrounded in empty can of Red Bull, Rockstar and Mountain Dew, while trying to troubleshoot a bad RAM stick?! With spare parts all over the floor around him, trying every possible combination of hardware and software, on a system that he is familiar with?! I remember when my power supply went weak and took the mobo, taking the drive controller with it and corrupting the drive over a week long death, has he ever had the pleasure of being on that side of the coin?!", and so on and so forth. It's easy to be 'Monday morning quarterback' when you know what the problem is to begin with.
Usually when doing tech work, the way in which you become aware of a problem is not the actual problem, but rather a consequence of the real problem. Also, the RAM problem is *CRAP*! The RAM is usually one of the hardest problems to troubleshoot if it hasn't fully failed. If you're 'working your way back from the wall', starting with the power and working up towards the OS or application (depending on the highest possible layer of the problem), you find that the RAM and motherboard are essentially the same layer, since RAM/CPU/mobo are all so closely integrated and the CPU and RAM are both on the same layer with respect to the motherboard! Without knowing, with a good amount certainty, that the motherboard is good, you can't ascend to the next layer and assume RAM or CPU without first isolating 1 of these 3 components! Add to this a slightly raised cap. or 2 and all bets are off - is it the board, is the power supply over volting this thing, or are these aged components in working order with a bad RAM stick? Or is it a CPU so fried it won't POST? I got a call from a friend about 2 weeks ago with a bad RAM stick and the thing POST'ed every time, and locked loading the OS; memtestx86 showed EVERY byte of the RAM as bad. OK, I'm getting too angry to post coherently (well, that happened a few sentences ago).
Obviously you mean the title. Linux Desktop is an oxymoron. Although becoming less so. I'm starting to be impressed with the desktop distributions that are coming forth. The first time I booted PCLinuxOS, I immediately thought, "hey, I could put this on my fathers computer, and he'd be able to use it, despite having just bought his first laptop at 56 years old!"
Sabayon (a newer Gentoo derivative) is really starting to become a solid (insert Gentoo joke here) distro, and I'm actually running it as my secondary, ATM. Granted, I was up until 5AM this morning trying to work around VMWare dependencies issues in portage, but it's also intended for a more technical desktop user than PCLinuxOS.
(?)ubuntu hits the ground running like no OS I've ever seen, and it keeps getting better - I think I have a better shot at the wireless working seamlessly with it, than I do with any pre SP2 XP install. I've no stats to back this last claim up as its merely anecdotal and not objectively tested in any manner whatsoever, AFAIK.
"200[x]: The year of the Linux Desktop?" I've found that title to be reliable for knowing what year it is, as it has worked for the last 5 years in a row.;)
[...]I'd take it over WinME any day. I'd take a dull fork to the eye over WinME any day - what's your point? I think Vista may well be Microsoft's newest ME; I think they'll release a decent OS next time around as they did with XP after ME sucked mightily out of the gates (no pun intended), the way Vista is doing now.
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A work of fiction, I presume? I don't know. I never found out how it ends; I kept having to reread the chapter on recursion.
I was only kidding when I started writing this, but on second thought... manual override of slashdot via front page stories isn't such a bad idea... Let's post a story about Mcaffee as a trial run!
How current are your binaries of this thing? I've been wanting to get my hands on this thing and tear it apart for some time now...
Sounds like a nightmare! If you ever get the chance or have the option to, try flying JetBlue. I'm a broke college student and my mom is 1500 miles away from me; they're cheap, mostly on time (I think out of the 4 flights I've had with them, 1 was delayed for about 20 minutes... the plane was parked in the wrong terminal. Don't know whose fault that was, the flight was out of Newark.) and despite only having a small fleet of small planes, they're fairly new. They also had a flight status that showed the plane on top of a google map, with current speed and altitude - I was reading "The Joy of C", so my inner geek was nearly giddy between the book and google maps. Checking in with them is painless, and since they're such a small company, there's never a line at the counter.
With the speeds, energies, and sizes we're talking about, I have no idea!
Another Tracker, just in case: LinuxTracker :: Details for torrent "Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) - Desktop CD i386"
Can you confirm that the math is correct on this (with respect to the constraints on upper and lower limits) and that 1 second is a viable time frame for a black holes existence at this size and mass? I'm rather hoping someone will come back with, something to the effect of "nah, we can't create one that big and it would only last for half a nanosecond". Otherwise I'm moving to Mars.
As a side note...
Every time we 'play' with something we don't understand, what seems to happen? We get people killed or it's a great discovery that we figure out how to use to kill people that look different than us.
Yeah, and he, more importantly, crossed state lines to make his point. Anyone who has ever had a...ahem colorful... past knows that you don't want to make it a federal issue if it doesn't have to be.
It would have been better for him to break in to a computer in China (or Cuba, North Korea, etc.) and then from there break in to the 911 dispatch center in another state.
I think you need to have some caffeine and come back when your jittery enough for the rest of us to understand you.
If there is a Starbucks in the area - run in, cut to the front of the line and scream, "I'm a programmer! No caffeine! Emergency!". They'll hook you up with an Avanti sized, triple espresso, Frappuccino with some extra sugar... in the form of a fast drip IV.
Dude, not funny... I actually stumbled upon exactly that.
When a machine gets infected, the virus usually patches the system so that it own it without the intervention of other malware. These guys, unfortunately, aren't stupid; sadly, an infected computer is probably more patched than most (not yet) infected boxes. After you steal something, you tend to defend it so that it remains in your possession.
It would be ideal for them to wait, but that won't sell any magazines if their competitors are covering tech. before it comes out. Especially tech. heavy magazines expected to be on the bleeding edge.
He could have also put his hands in his pockets and whistled while rocking back and forth, and hoped no one noticed or said anything. It's rare to see journalists point out when they're wrong (I'm glaring at you, Dvorak!), without being at knife point.
Dude, I just about fell out of my chair; I salute you!
...As for my son, he got an F for the quarter, so I told him if he brings that up to a B, and keeps all As in the other subjects, I will buy him a video iPod. Of course that elevated to, "if I get straight As, will you buy me an iPhone?". Man, kids these days! Well, meet him half way; agree to those terms on the provision that if he attempts the straight A's to get an iPhone and falls short, he'll be receiving a brown Zune instead of an iPod.That's just the problem - the tech community. Those who understand it, don't manage it; those who manage it don't understand it. I wish there were some way around this, but I'm not going to manage it... I'd rather be writing code than anything managerial, how about you?
I didn't know Sony opened their rootkit source. You'll have to forgive me for not reading on about the Open Invention Network, as their first entry in the member list left a bad taste in my mouth. Can't we trade them over to Microsoft's side? I'll even take Bill Hilf and Microsoft's Open Source division in place of Sony.To be honest, they really nailed the launch - I thought it would blow up on the pad. Thank you for that link, I haven't laughed that hard in weeks.
You see, that parcel must actually traverse four dimensions en route to the intended (or unintended, for that matter) target. One of those dimensions happens to be time. Thermodynamics dictates that this dimension 'points' in a single direction and therefore cannot be reversed.
This means that I cannot possibly have "all those backups we have replace the corrupted files sixty seconds ago"; these things take time. Especially when I said that we shouldn't be mounting writable data in RAID 0 without an UPS. Stand on this 'X' while I have the tapes sent to you.
"Pull!"
Usually when doing tech work, the way in which you become aware of a problem is not the actual problem, but rather a consequence of the real problem. Also, the RAM problem is *CRAP*! The RAM is usually one of the hardest problems to troubleshoot if it hasn't fully failed. If you're 'working your way back from the wall', starting with the power and working up towards the OS or application (depending on the highest possible layer of the problem), you find that the RAM and motherboard are essentially the same layer, since RAM/CPU/mobo are all so closely integrated and the CPU and RAM are both on the same layer with respect to the motherboard! Without knowing, with a good amount certainty, that the motherboard is good, you can't ascend to the next layer and assume RAM or CPU without first isolating 1 of these 3 components! Add to this a slightly raised cap. or 2 and all bets are off - is it the board, is the power supply over volting this thing, or are these aged components in working order with a bad RAM stick? Or is it a CPU so fried it won't POST? I got a call from a friend about 2 weeks ago with a bad RAM stick and the thing POST'ed every time, and locked loading the OS; memtestx86 showed EVERY byte of the RAM as bad. OK, I'm getting too angry to post coherently (well, that happened a few sentences ago).
Sabayon (a newer Gentoo derivative) is really starting to become a solid (insert Gentoo joke here) distro, and I'm actually running it as my secondary, ATM. Granted, I was up until 5AM this morning trying to work around VMWare dependencies issues in portage, but it's also intended for a more technical desktop user than PCLinuxOS.
(?)ubuntu hits the ground running like no OS I've ever seen, and it keeps getting better - I think I have a better shot at the wireless working seamlessly with it, than I do with any pre SP2 XP install. I've no stats to back this last claim up as its merely anecdotal and not objectively tested in any manner whatsoever, AFAIK.
I'd take a dull fork to the eye over WinME any day - what's your point?
I think Vista may well be Microsoft's newest ME; I think they'll release a decent OS next time around as they did with XP after ME sucked mightily out of the gates (no pun intended), the way Vista is doing now.