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Comment Re:Wait, what? (Score 1) 275

by asserted (#30759342) Attached to: Gmail Moves To HTTPS By Default

> And most importantly: One standing connection.

which is also a drawback on links with any kind of loss - one lost packet stall everything until it's retried.
not to mention throwing away parallelism on good links - HTTP standard allows 2 concurrent connections to the server, most browsers open more, and the difference is easily noticeable.

Comment Re:Wait, what? (Score 1) 275

by asserted (#30759276) Attached to: Gmail Moves To HTTPS By Default

rather, it is probably an oversimplified way of saying "the setup cost for every new SSL connection is significantly higher" - with all the back and forth happening during handshake. not a single byte of user data can be transferred before handshake happens, and that is $several x RTT, and can be significant.

Comment Re:trying it... (Score 1) 540

by asserted (#30315220) Attached to: Google Launches Public DNS Resolver

funny business as in what? have you confused server's address with the reply?

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: slashdot.org
Address: 216.34.181.45

this is a perfectly correct reply: 216.34.181.45 belongs to sourceforge and is the right IP address for slashdot.org

Comment Re:Java (Score 1) 139

by asserted (#27979425) Attached to: Open Source Solution Breaks World Sorting Records
well, actually... i sort of do. look, google has already reported on sorting 1 PB in 6 hours on a 4000 node cluster. their implementation is in C++. yahoo's result is 16.25 hours on a 3800 node cluster and hadoop is written in java. even taking into account the 200 node difference, yahoo's implementation is ~2.6 times slower than google's. it may not all be java's fault, but still.
Data Storage

Encrypted But Searchable Online Storage? 266

Posted by timothy from the give-some-to-that-lawyer dept.
An anonymous reader asks "Is there a solution for online storage of encrypted data providing encrypted search and similar functions over the encrypted data? Is there an API/software/solution or even some online storage company providing this? I don't like Google understanding all my unencrypted data, but I like that Google can search them when they are unencrypted. So I would like to have both: the online storage provider does not understand my data, but he can still help me with searching in them, and doing other useful stuff. I mean: I send to the remote server encrypted data and later an encrypted query (the server cannot decipher them), and the server sends me back a chunk of my encrypted data stored there — the result of my encrypted query. Or I ask for the directory structure of my encrypted data (somehow stored in my data too — like in a tar archive), and the server sends it back, without knowing that this encrypted chunk is the directory structure. I googled for this and found some papers, however no software and no online service providing this yet." Can anyone point to an available implementation?
Data Storage

New Datacenter In Underground Lair 109

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the mwahahahahahahahah dept.
lobo235 writes to tell us that a new underground data center designed by Sweden's largest ISP is fit for a classic supervillain, complete with greenhouses, waterfalls, German submarine engines, simulated daylight and can withstand a hit from a hydrogen bomb. "'Rather than just concentrating on technical hardware we decided to put humans in focus,' he said. 'Of course, the security, power, cooling, network, etc, are all top notch, but the people designing data centers often (always!) forget about the humans that are supposed to work with the stuff.'"
Google

A New Tool From Google Worries Brand-Name Sites 168

Posted by kdawson from the first-they-came-for-the-new-york-times dept.
Google has quietly introduced a new feature, called search-within-search, that is alarming some big-name Web publishers and retailers. They worry that users will be siphoned away through ad sales to competitors. What Google is doing is offering a secondary search option if the user initially searches explicitly for one of the brand-name destinations that Google has identified, such as "Best Buy." This secondary search lets users refine their query entirely within the pages of the desired site — but using Google's search, not the site's, and showing Google ads on the result pages, quite possibly ads from competitors. "Analysts generally praise the feature as helping users save steps, but for Web publishers and retailers, there are trade-offs... 'Google is showing a level of aggressiveness with this that's just not needed,' said [one Internet consultant]... Take, for instance, a [test where] users of Google searched The Washington Post and were given a secondary search box. Those who typed 'jobs' into that second box saw related results for The Post's employment pages, but the results were bordered by ads for competing employment sites like CareerBuilder or Monster.com. So even though users began the process by stating their intention to reach The Post, Google's ads steered at least some of them to competitors. Similar situations arose when users relied on Google to search nytimes.com."
Security

MySpace Private Pictures Leak 405

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the if-you-don't-want-it-shared-don't-put-it-out-there dept.
Martin writes "We all heard about the MySpace vulnerability that allowed everyone to access pictures that have been set to private at MySpace. That vulnerability got closed down pretty fast. Unfortunately though (for MySpace) someone did use an automated script to run over 44,000 profiles that downloaded all private pictures which resulted in a 17 Gigabyte zip file with more than 560,000 pictures. The zip file is now showing up on popular torrent sites across the net."
Government

Legalize File Sharing, Say Swedish MPs 545

Posted by kdawson from the common-sensical dept.
CrystalFalcon writes "In the past week, the file sharing debate has exploded in Sweden, with numerous mainstream politicians finally having understood the issue. Last week, seven Swedish MPs wrote a prominent opinion piece saying that fully legalized file sharing is not just the best solution, it's the only solution. Now their number has increased to 13, and the issue continues to grow. Good summaries at TorrentFreak and P2P Consortium. Original opinion piece in English here."
Linux Business

Shuttle's $200 Linux PC Part of a Trend? 396

Posted by timothy from the love-it-already dept.
eldavojohn writes "With $200 machines being all the rage these days, it's surprising that more coverage hasn't been given to Shuttle's KPC which is an Intel Celeron processor, a 945GC chipset, 512MB of memory and either a 60GB or 80GB HDD. With deals like these, will Linux become the dominant home operating system for the thrifty?"
Linux Business

Linux To Take Over The Low-End PC Market? 391

Posted by Zonk from the penguins-on-the-loose dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Desktop Linux has a recent commentary on the inevitable growth of Linux on the cheaper end of the desktop market. According to the article, the availability of under-$500 usable hardware, combined with a free operating system, free desktop office products, and free or cheap 'software as a service' online applications, opens a new market in which Microsoft cannot compete. 'Microsoft will fight this trend tooth and nail. It will cut prices to the point where it'll be bleeding ink on some of its product lines. And Windows XP is going to stick around much longer than Microsoft ever wanted it to. Still, it won't be enough.'"
IT

Seven Wonders of the IT World 170

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the random-stats dept.
C.G. Lynch writes "The computer closest to the North Pole. The most intriguing data center. The biggest scientific computing grid. The little kernel that rocked the world. CIO.com has compiled a list of Seven Wonders of the IT World, some of the most impressive and unusual systems on the planet (and beyond)."
Software

2008 - Year of Linux Desktop? 659

Posted by Zonk from the what-year-isn't-the-year-of-the-penguin dept.
rstrohmeyer writes "Over at Maximum PC, we're betting that Linux will pick up unprecedented momentum in the coming year. With phenomenal new distros, swelling international support, and a little extra momentum from Dell, we think Linux is poised to exploit the current atmosphere of doubt surrounding Vista and pick up serious traction in '08. 'For end users here in North America, Linux poses a low barrier to entry. While many still balk at an upgrade to Vista (typically centered around cost and restrictive licensing terms), those who are curious about the open-source alternative will find few of these obstacles. And an increasingly rich array of ready-to-run software (not to mention surprisingly effective utilities that let you run many Windows apps) makes it easy switch ... Ultimately, I'm not predicting that Linux will take over the market next year. Or anytime soon, for that matter. But if there's ever been a time to try out the world's leading free OS, 2008 will be that time. I am predicting that users will switch to Linux in record numbers next year. And many will never look back.'"

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