Comment Re:Wasn't allocation always the problem? (Score 2) 306
If MIT had to give up some of their IPv4 addresses, maybe we'd get IPv6 openafs this century
ARIN Is Down To the Last /8 of IPv4 Addresses
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An anonymous reader writes "On 3 February 2011, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) issued the remaining five /8 address blocks, each containing 16.7 million addresses, in the global free pool equally to the five RIRs, and as such ARIN is no longer able to receive additional IPv4 resources from the IANA. After yesterday's large allocation (104.64.0.0/10) to Akamai, the address pool remaining to be assigned by ARIN is now down to the last /8. This triggers stricter allocation rules and marks the end of general availability of new IPv4 addresses in North America. ARIN thus follows the RIRs of Asia, Europe and South America into the final phase of IPv4 depletion."
Submission + - ARIN is down to the last /8 of IPv4 addresses (arin.net)
An anonymous reader writes: On 3 February 2011, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) issued the remaining five /8 address blocks, each containing 16.7 million addresses, in the global free pool equally to the five RIRs, and as such ARIN is no longer able to receive additional IPv4 resources from the IANA. After yesterday's large allocation (104.64.0.0/10) to Akamai, the address pool remaining to be assigned by ARIN is now down to the last /8. This triggers stricter allocation rules and marks the end of general availability of new IPv4 addresses in North America. ARIN thus follows the RIRs of Asia, Europe and South America into the final phase of IPv4 depletion.
Submission + - New Zealand is crowdsourcing the Internet Rights and Freedoms Bill
pinkstuff writes: The Green Party of New Zealand is to put forward an Internet Rights and Freedoms Bill. The bill is open to discussion, and they are 'crowdsoucing' ideas. What ideas would you have? You can submit ideas via their website. The summary of the bill can be found here.
From the article:
New Zealand needs a free, open, and thriving Internet. The Internet should be an open platform built on free speech, innovation, and democracy. It’s time to develop positive, rights-affirming Internet law to protect human rights in both the online and offline world.
Submission + - Maynard Launches As Lightweight Wayland Desktop For The Pi (phoronix.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Maynard has been announced as a joint Collabora and Raspberry Pi Foundation venture to create a lightweight Wayland desktop suitable for running on the Rasbperry Pi. Maynard can run on the Raspberry Pi as well as conventional desktops while being very lightweight, except it goes without support for XWayland to run legacy X11 apps and it also doesn't handle GTK apps well.
Submission + - Nokia had production ready web tablet 13 years ago, killed just before launch (digitoday.fi)
An anonymous reader writes: Sad story: Nokia created M510 tablet running EPOC (later to be renamed as Symbian) thirteen years ago. It was fully production ready and they produced thousand units just before it was cancelled because market research proved there wasn't demand for the device. The team got devices for themselves and the rest were destroyed and the team was fired. The lesson: Don't try to be pioneer if you're relying on market research studies.
Submission + - How do you revoke and re-issue a biometric credential? (technicalnotebook.com)
technicalnotebook writes: An interesting thought to come out of all the media surrounding Heartbleed over the last week. What would happen if the main mechanism of authentication used today was biometric authentication... this is not something that could simply be revoked and re-issued if your credentials were compromised.
So I thought I would pose this to the brains trust that is Slashdot, what *could* we do if something similar to Heartbleed happened following the more mainstream adoption of biometric authentication (assuming that in certain cases the credentials were stored server-side rather than locally for verification).
Interesting puzzle to ponder (and I would love to hear Slashdotter's thoughts).
So I thought I would pose this to the brains trust that is Slashdot, what *could* we do if something similar to Heartbleed happened following the more mainstream adoption of biometric authentication (assuming that in certain cases the credentials were stored server-side rather than locally for verification).
Interesting puzzle to ponder (and I would love to hear Slashdotter's thoughts).
Submission + - SageMathCloud's new Storage Architecture (blogspot.co.at)
phatsphere writes: William Stein summarizes his experience of creating a highly scalable, continuously backuped and replicated storage infrastructure for SMC, based on ZFS, bup, rsync & co:
Consistency and availability are competing requirements. It is trivial to keep the files in a SageMathCloud project consistent if we store it in exactly one place; however, when the machine that project is on goes down for any reason, the project stops working, [...]. By making many copies of the files in a project, it's fairly easy to ensure that the project is always available, even if network switches in multiple data centers completely fail, etc. Unfortunately, if there are too many users and the synchronization itself puts too heavy of a load on the overall system, then machines will fail more frequently, and though projects are available, files do not stay consistent and data is lost to the user.
and boldly summarizes
The architecture that we have built could scale up to a million users.
Submission + - Astronomers Solve Puzzle of the Mountains That Fell From Space 1
KentuckyFC writes: Iapetus, Saturn’s third largest moon, was first photographed by the Cassini spacecraft on 31 December 2004. The images created something of a stir. Clearly visible was a narrow, steep ridge of mountains that stretch almost halfway around the moon’s equator. The question that has since puzzled astronomers is how this mountain range got there. Now evidence is mounting that this mountain range is not the result of tectonic or volcanic activity, like mountain ranges on other planets. Instead, astronomers are increasingly convinced that this mountain range fell from space. The latest evidence is a study of the shape of the mountains using 3-D images generated from Cassini data. They show that the angle of the mountainsides is close to the angle of repose, that’s the greatest angle that a granular material can form before it landslides. That’s not proof but it certainly consistent with this exotic formation theory. So how might this have happened? Astronomers think that early in its life, Iapetus must have been hit by another moon, sending huge volumes of ejecta into orbit. Some of this condensed into a new moon that escaped into space. However, the rest formed an unstable ring that gradually spiralled in towards the moon, eventually depositing the material in a narrow ridge around the equator. Cassini’s next encounter with Iapetus will be in 2015 which should give astronomers another chance to study the strangest mountain range in the Solar System.
Submission + - Google Chrome drops DOM Level 2 support (google.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The latest version of Chrome silently dropped DOM Level 2 support and removed the createAttributeNS and setAttributeNodeNS. While they are arguing this is based on usage counter data and these methods are only used in 1 of a million pageviews, after all standards is what makes the web possible. It is not that it was necessary to fix some security issue, but they had working code for this functionality and dropped it although they know this is still used.
Submission + - Understanding Aereo (ssrn.com)
An anonymous reader writes: On April 22, 2014 the Supreme Court will hear argument in American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. v. Aereo, Inc. The question before the Court is whether Aereo Inc.'s business of streaming live broadcast television over the internet violates the Copyright Act. A new Article in the New York University Law Review explains Aereo's legal argument, and how the company has managed to make a plausible claim that by using tens of thousands of tiny antennas, one per subscribe, its service does not technically violate the Copyright Act.
Submission + - IRS: give us machine-readable tax formulas
johndoe42 writes: Now that tax day is almost over, it's time to ask the IRS to make it less painful. All of the commercial tax software is awful, overpriced, and incompatible with everything else. Some people have tried to do better: OpenTaxSolver and a rather large Excel spreadsheet are tedious manual translations of the IRS's forms. I'm sure that many programmers would try to make much friendlier tax software if they didn't have to deal with translating all of the IRS instructions. Let's petition the IRS to publish computerized formulas so that this can happen.
Submission + - Utah cops warrantlessly search prescription drug records (arstechnica.com)
Advocatus Diaboli writes: The warrantless search of Utah's database chronicling every controlled substance dispensed by a pharmacist resulted in charges against one paramedic that have nothing to do with the original investigation. Instead, the authorities discovered an employee whose records exhibited "the appearance of Opioid dependence" and lodged prescription fraud charges against paramedic Ryan Pyle. Now Pyle faces a maximum five-year prison sentence if convicted of the felony. "To me, it's outrageous government conduct," Pyle's attorney, Rebecca Skordas, said in a telephone interview Monday.
Comment Re:How does a language remediate anything? (Score 1) 189
It is actually possible for the language to prevent certain classes of vulnerabilities. See Ur/Web. That's not what Perl is doing, but...
Comment More Important Is Ease of Writing Secure Programs (Score 2) 189
Ur/Web is an interesting language with a type system designed to reject vulnerable web programs as ill-typed. The compiler itself is written in a safe language — Standard ML, and there is a proof of language correctness included.
