Comment As an ex-Akamaiite, I can only say (Score 1) 205
nothing.
Comment As an ex-Akamaiite... (Score 0) 100
I can only say nothing.
Submission + - Stopping Terror with Social Networks/Technology (slashdot.org)
GillBates0 writes: "In the wake of the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai and Norway, we saw how people used technology to collaborate and help each other online (e.g. for rides, blood donations, etc). I am toying with the idea of creating a website where people can report suspicious objects by clicking a picture. Once uploaded to the website and geolocated (via an App), the location could be flagged on a Google Map, so others can avoid it. If enough people report the object, the website could automatically dial local authorities (perhaps each city should have one). It's kinda "surveillance for the people, by the people", especially in areas where government surveillance isn't adequate. It would harness the power of technology and the masses to improve public vigilance, warn other people in the area, in real time. There are privacy implications, and there's probably a huge scope for misuse, but it would save lives. What do people think?"
Comment Re:I see. (Score 1) 5
From here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_pluralism#Hindu_views
Hindu views
The Hindu religion is naturally pluralistic. A well-known Rig Vedic hymn says that "Truth is One, though the sages know it variously." (Ékam sat vipra bahud vadanti).[11] Similarly, in the Bhagavad Gt (4:11), God, manifesting as an incarnation, states that "As people approach me, so I receive them. All paths lead to me" (ye yath m prapadyante ts tathiva bhajmyaham mama vartmnuvartante manuy prtha sarvaa).[12] The Hindu religion has no theological difficulties in accepting degrees of truth in other religions. Hinduism emphasizes that everyone actually worship the same God, whether they know it or not.[13] Just as Hindus worshiping Ganesh is seen as valid by those worshiping Vishnu, so someone worshiping Jesus or Allah is accepted. Many foreign deities become assimilated into Hinduism, and some Hindus may sometimes offer prayers to Jesus along with their traditional forms of God.
Note - I can dislike but still accept others philosophies or ideas as their paths. BUT accepting still doesn't imply liking their ideas, particularly, when they are forced upon me.
But I digress, what I originally started out saying was that disliking somebody for what they are (by birth, e.g. their skin color) is Wrong. BUT disliking their believes or disliking them for what they believe in, is not.
Comment Re:I see. (Score 1) 5
So, then, it's okay to hate Jews. Or Christians or Muslims. Or atheists.
Notice, I didn't say 'hate' but 'dislike' someone's ideology. Doesn't subscribing to a particular philisophy (Disclaimer: I'm borderline Agnostic, was raised a Hindu, and practice Buddhist meditation as well) automatically imply a disliking alternate philosophies? Otherwise, why would one prefer or choose one over another?
But yeah, the basis of Hindu philosophy does include accepting all religions (look up Pluralism on wikipedia) as alternate paths to the same underlying Reality.
Journal Journal: Regarding R*cism and such 5
It is hateful and bad to dislike someone for what they are (e.g. their skin color).
It is NOT hateful NOR wrong to dislike someone for what they think or believe in.
It's as simple as that!
Submission + - Mind controls body in extreme experiments (harvard.edu)
GillBates0 writes: "I chanced upon this interesting study by Harvard Professor Dr. Herbert Benson, a prominent cardiologist, founder of the Mind/Body Medical Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital and author of several publications and books. Benson and his team studied monks living in the Himalayan Mountains in Sikkim, India, who could, by practicing a form of meditation, raise the temperatures of their fingers and toes by as much as 17 degrees. The researchers were astonished to find that these monks could lower their metabolism by 64 percent. "It was an astounding, breathtaking [no pun intended] result," Benson exclaims. To put that decrease in perspective, metabolism, or oxygen consumption, drops only 10-15 percent in sleep and about 17 percent during simple meditation. Benson believes that such a capability could be useful for space travel. Travelers might use meditation to ease stress and oxygen consumption on long flights to other planets. In his research, Dr. Benson concludes that mind and body are one system, in which meditation can play a significant role in reducing stress responses."
Submission + - India: 'Massive' uranium find in India (bbc.co.uk)
GillBates0 writes: "BBC reports that India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh may have one of the largest reserves of uranium in the world. India is planning to set up about 30 reactors over as many years and get a quarter of its electricity from nuclear energy by 2050."
Submission + - Online collaboration helps Mumbai attack victims (cnn.com)
GillBates0 writes: "CNN has a nice story about how online collaboration swiftly helped form a centrally organized online disaster effort during Wednesday's Mumbai attacks. India accounts for almost one fifth of the world's cell phone subscribers. At a time when chaos reigned, and voice calls were jammed, a loose collaboration of techies, laymen, and good samaritans quickly collaborated online via social media, Wikipedia, Google docs and other online resoureces to coordinate blood donors, assistance, rides, and other services to help the victims of the attack."
Submission + - $22 Billion+ in Gold, Jewels found in India Temple (npr.org)
GillBates0 writes: ""In Southern India a story that sounds like the plot line of a Hollywood adventure is unfolding. A panel appointed by the country's Supreme Court, found a treasure treasure estimated to be worth US $22 billion (and counting) in the underground vaults of a Hindu temple in Trivandrum, India. The AP reports that inside the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple, investigators were counting the staggering hoard of gold coins and statues of gods and goddesses studded with diamonds and other precious stones. CNN IBN adds that among the treasures (still being weighed and inventoried) are gold specters, idols, rare gems, sacks full of diamonds, and crowns of erstwhile kings.""
Submission + - Google's Bangalore Streetview project stalled (in.com)
GillBates0 writes: "The Bangalore Police has objected to the collection of data by Google's cars, which were criss-crossing Bangalore city taking high definition images to give users 360 degree views of streets. Talking about the security concerns in an earlier interview with CNN-IBN, Google India Product Head Vinay Goel said, "We are only driving on public roads and taking publicly available imagery so what we are not doing is going into a specific installation and taking private pictures and obviously we are working with the authorities so if there are certain locations they don't want us to be there we won't go there, we are happy working with the authorities here.""
Submission + - Shaky start to the morning (wikipedia.org)
GillBates0 writes: "We woke up this morning to the loudest whooming thunderclap ever (Boston suburb). Anyone else hear it?
Unless there's an alternate explanation, we think lightning may have struck our home/arrester, but there's no visible damage.
How can one tell? How does it sound when lightning strikes your or a neighboring home's lightning arrester? Any electrical engineering Slashdotters or experienced lightning catchers around?"
Unless there's an alternate explanation, we think lightning may have struck our home/arrester, but there's no visible damage.
How can one tell? How does it sound when lightning strikes your or a neighboring home's lightning arrester? Any electrical engineering Slashdotters or experienced lightning catchers around?"
Submission + - Unseen Power of Michael Jackson (cnn.com)
GillBates0 writes: "Forgotten Michael Jackson photos could power the world, inventor says. A Los Angeles inventor who photographed Michael Jackson 33 years ago hopes those images will now help launch an electric motor he claims could solve the world's energy problems."
Submission + - That's all folks! (thats_all_folks.gif)
GillBates0 writes: "That's all folks, this is it!
Please feel free to enjoy any humorous, and/or clever and/or childish April Fool's anecdotes around my office, my ex-office, my family, the continents, and the dubloo-dubloo-dubloo.dot.www.com's out there, this fine and snowy New England April 1st morning. Rest assured, I'm celebrating with you in spirit wherever you are.
I'm in the middle of a sleepless and hectic release week and as such unable to indulge in, participate in or share any lolhappyfunrofl pranks with all of you, my friends, family and colleagues, current and past.
Let this be an April Fool's Day to commemorate all of the past fun April Fool's days we've shared together.
If you've ever been enjoyed a memorable April fool's please feel free to share the lulz with your near and dear ones over a cold beer and/or adult recreational beverage of your choice.
Or go watch a movie, refresh thats_all_folks.gif or something.
Just leave me alone."
Please feel free to enjoy any humorous, and/or clever and/or childish April Fool's anecdotes around my office, my ex-office, my family, the continents, and the dubloo-dubloo-dubloo.dot.www.com's out there, this fine and snowy New England April 1st morning. Rest assured, I'm celebrating with you in spirit wherever you are.
I'm in the middle of a sleepless and hectic release week and as such unable to indulge in, participate in or share any lolhappyfunrofl pranks with all of you, my friends, family and colleagues, current and past.
Let this be an April Fool's Day to commemorate all of the past fun April Fool's days we've shared together.
If you've ever been enjoyed a memorable April fool's please feel free to share the lulz with your near and dear ones over a cold beer and/or adult recreational beverage of your choice.
Or go watch a movie, refresh thats_all_folks.gif or something.
Just leave me alone."
Comment Don't forget Akamai (Score 3, Interesting) 392
Akamai had a role to play in the defense as well.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20025477-281.html
Akamai says it can defend against Anon attacks
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20025477-281.html#ixzz187QnPlDV
Akamai managers say they could have bolstered the Web sites that buckled under attacks launched recently by Internet vigilantes.
The world's largest content delivery network says it has enough servers and the right kind of network to "mitigate distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks," Neil Cohen, Akamai's senior director of product marketing told CNET. DDoS describes the practice of overwhelming a Web site with traffic so that it can't be accessed.
Some well-known sites were the targets of DDoS attacks launched by a loosely connected group of WikiLeaks supporters who call themselves Anonymous or Anon for short. The group lashed out at companies they consider to be hostile to WikiLeaks, the service responsible for publicizing an enormous amount of classified U.S. government documents. Some of those attacked were MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, and Amazon.
MasterCard, Visa, and PayPal stopped processing donations made to WikiLeaks while Amazon stopped hosting WikiLeaks servers. At this point it appears that Amazon was able to withstand the attack while MasterCard and Visa's sites were inaccessible for extended periods.
Cohen said few other companies have as much experience as his with defending Web sites from this kind of threat. He said that late last month, a number of U.S. retail sites came under DDoS attack from multiple different countries. Cohen said he was unaware of who was behind it or why, but he said that Akamai helped some of the retailers withstand the onslaught of hits to their sites, which in some cases reached to 10,000 times the normal daily traffic to some of these sites. None of the sites went down, he said.
"What we did over the last decade was built out our network and we now have 80,000 servers in 70 countries," Cohen said. "We can mitigate DDoS attacks by having a server extremely close to the court rather than try to absorb the attack in one centralized location. As an attack grows in size and distributes out to more bots, we have a server near the compromised machines. As the attack gets bigger, our network scales on demand."
While there are reports that Anonymous is giving up on DDoS attacks related to the WikiLeaks case, it is unlikely that we've seen the end of them. In retaliation against the entertainment industry's antipiracy attempts, Anonymous knocked out the Web sites belonging to the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, Hustler magazine, and the U.S. Copyright Office.
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20025477-281.html#ixzz187QiBtJU
