More like, "your neighbor is throwing rocks through your windows from inside his house and the police can't be troubled to do anything about it so you go over and stop him, and if his door is locked you may have to break it down"

No they tracked them down by using an automated intrusion tool to break into one of the DDoS attack machines and then followed the stepping stone servers back to the control machine.

I was doing due diligence on a computer security firm once who had be subject to a DDoS blackmail attack, you know, give us $5,000 or will we will keep your web site down. Well they back traced the control to some cyber cafe in eastern Europe and worked with the State Department to actually get the local police to go in and arrest the people involved.

If someone is actively hacking you then hacking them back isn't a crime (or it shouldn't be) its just self defense. And if you have to hire some firm to do it I don't see how it is any different than hiring armed security guards or private detectives.

If the law says you can't defend yourself from someone trying to ruin your business then the law is an ass.

Between this, the latest reports of restoring sigh with implantable photo voltaic chips and engineered nano particle drug delivery, medical science fiction is running out of subjects that are still fiction. Kurzweil's Singularity is looking more and more likely every day.

In the words of Glenn Reynolds ...... FASTER, PLEASE!!

You didn't read what I wrote. I wasn't talking about someone other than the phone's owner making prank 911 txts, I was talking about the phone's owner making the prank txt and *claiming* it wasn't them to get out of trouble, because there would be no recording of their voice.

You need to contact 911 and you are worried about $0.25 txt charges?

Perhaps you aren't clear on the concept of a "true emergency".

Will they be able to make the phone only talk/text to the 911 operator till they release the "line"?

Or perhaps turn on the audio, i.e. you text "I can't talk there is a burglar in my house", and they can turn on the phone/video and listen?

I suppose they could also make it take your picture to cut down on prank calls, otherwise how do they stop people saying "someone texted it in when I put the phone down" (yes they can cover the camera, but you know they will think of the feature)

Or turn on the video so you can show the 911 operator what is happening... which would be a cool feature for voice 911 calls as well.

I for one welcome our new smart phone overlords.

I think this is one of those things for which there is a simple solution, find name of parent, all Ender's fans call parent and explain what a complete and colossal idiot they are. Problem solved. News report of parent explaining how their phone didn't stop ringing for several months convinces all future such parents to just keep their opinions to themselves.

"Pornography" is supposed to be judged by the standards of the "community", I think its time or the community to judge the standards of those who wish to judge the community.

Sorry, but you have your cause and effect backward, NK got into the Axis of Evil because of their nuke program not the other way around

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_North_Korea_nuclear_program

The Iranian program also long predates the Bush speech, Clinton had already imposed sanctions against them in 2000 due to their activities.

The rest of your post is delusion, your points that you think would lead them to negotiate would convince them precisely that they were taking the right actions by going forward.

I'm guessing you don't play much poker, or negotiate in business contracts. You seem to assume that there is some reason they would not just want to have those weapons in the first place.

You have obviously never bought an airline ticket at the last minute have you?

I think saying it would be practically indentured service is putting it too mildly. When they speak of how when Apple made a change shortly before product launch and the factory supervisors went around waking up the workers in the on site housing in the middle of the night giving them some tea and sending them to the factory floor to begin retooling in the wee hours of the am, that isn't the sort of treatment an indentured servant is subject to, that is the way you treat slave labor.

Ok you wouldn't give slaves tea first, but other than that there is little difference that I can see.

I've said the same thing many times, but sadly it would never happen.

But suddenly you make me think of something that might work Reset all copyright terms back to something simple like 50 years from publication. BUT, you can extend the copyright for as long as you want for a payment each year of

  $1 Million + $100,000 * years over 50 since publication , (in inflation adjusted dollars)

so $1M at year 50, $1.5M at 55, $2M at 60, and so on

If you have Winnie he Pooh, you can pay for as long is it makes sense to do so, if something has little value it will go into the public domain at 50 years.

The money collected for the copyright extensions can be first directed to scanning everything the Library of Congress or any other library has to be put online so that it really does go to the public domain.

Ah, back when it still used vacuum tubes........ those were the days eh?

While they discuss individual SSDs, modern flash storage arrays ( http://www.violin-memory.com/products/6000-flash-memory-array/ ) can hide all the write latency and its effects on read latency. When you start talking about 16TB SSDs the same techniques can be used.

As far as bandwidth and IOPs, they use a 4K/8K write size for MLC/TLC, but MLC already exists with 8K pages, as well as having the ability to write more than one plane at once, which doubles the write bandwidth. Double the page size again and you double the BW.

Now bigger page sizes only help on the reads if you can use more than a single user read worth of data in the page, which might be possible depending on what the system knows about access patterns. But without making assumptions about the ability to store data together that's likely to be read together, garbage collection, which can wide up reading more bytes than the user does, can use most of the data in a page.

So there are factors of 2X, 4X maybe 8X in performance that the paper misses out on.

As far as density, it is not necessary to go to smaller features to get more bits per chip by using 3D techniques such as Toshiba's P-BiCS (Pipe-shaped Bit Cost Scalable) MLC NAND which allow vertical stacking which increases density without using smaller features with their worse performance and lifetime.

The group at UCSD that authored this has done some nice work so I don't mean to be too negative, but they are trying to predict too far from a limited and faulty set of assumptions which unfortunately negates much of the validity of this paper.

jon

p.s. in the interests of full disclosure, I make the arrays in the first link :)

So I followed the links down to the actual EU document, at which point the problem becomes clear. All the other issues aside, if it takes you 117 pages to explain a "basic right" then it seems to me that....

You're Not Doing It Right