Comment I wonder how it compares to google's study (Score 1) 1
Google has published a similar study: http://research.google.com/pub... a few years ago. I wonder if technology changes have had much of an impact.
Google has published a similar study: http://research.google.com/pub... a few years ago. I wonder if technology changes have had much of an impact.
Having checked a number of on-line news sites, the best real-time coverage seems to be on XKCD
yes, that's how I found out about it.
http://xkcd1446.org/ has the complete archive; currently at about 120 images.
You can check if you've been scanned for exploitable CGIs using something like (adjust apache logs path accordingly):
grep cgi
Thanks for the nice grep work - found one attempt to get my box to rat itself out via ping:
/var/log/apache2/access.log:89.207.135.125 - - [25/Sep/2014:03:52:14 -0500] "GET
Fortunately I was patched several hours prior to that.
Would there be any way for that probe to execute against a static 404 page - no cgi executing?
yep:
Like Lynx and Caracals.
obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1056/
Algorithms are not AI. Everything you describe is simply a matter of following a human-generated set of instructions. That is not AI.
Algorithms are not AI. Everything you describe is simply a matter of following a human-generated set of instructions. That is not AI.
no, the difference is Big Data. Before "Big Data", machine translation, self-driving vehicles, chess, etc. were problems that were attempted to be solved by algorithms written by humans. These kinds of algorithms would be full of heuristics such as "if you are in situation X, perform behavior Y". This led to fragile, clunky code. Nowadays, with Big Data, the algorithms are more like, "see what everybody else is doing in situations similar to X"
tech.slashdot.org/story/01/05/17/1452217/scaling-walls-with-suction-cups
It would be nice if they had some sort of code review in place for this sort of stuff. However, this isn't a paid project, so the developers writing this are doing arguably the best they can.
The code was reviewed. The commit log shows that the reviewer was Stephen Henson (thanks to slashdot user grub for pointing this out.)
Personally I wish we'd just man up and shoot the appropriate organisms into Venus' atmosphere to start the terraforming process.
Because breathable Earth-normal atmosphere is a lifting gas on Venus, we could make a relatively low budget colony without any terraforming. Just send a big balloon. It could ride the relatively stable upper atmospheric winds on Venus, circling the planet every 4 earth days, and be at standard pressure, so any hull breach would not result in explosive decompression.
If A = B and B = C, then A = C, except where void or prohibited by law. -- Roy Santoro