Patents are a two way deal: exclusivity in exchange for telling us the process of how you achieved it. I don't see how that is true with software; it is just a one way deal.

A computer should do what it is good at: compute. The fact that the only thing we can come up with is emulate neurons shows we don't know how they work and what the objective is.

And I've always wanted to use something like that to identify and localize mosquitos in my room. All you need then is a laser.

try code re-use.

He does have a point (besides the other BS he is making). It is getting harder and harder to deliver email from valid sources to valid receivers with valid content. Example: We have a web application and it generates reports with a notification to our users. The emails just started to get dropped this December at Hotmail (no bounce, nothing). Until we send the emails from our production IP addresses (which sends high volume mail). Then the mail is accepted and delivered. We solved the issue by 'optimizing' the html.

We see more and more people coming to us (ESP) for application mail delivery. I kidd you not.

Robtex says that Dimenoc contains part of an anti-spam outfit too.

I don't want to pay 10.000$ to my doctor... Sometimes you just do.

I would turn off caches as well..

And who else is the specialist on the planet?

I do not see any other orgs, e.g. Tier1 providers or internet exchanges, providing any relevant and coherent data (maybe I am missing some interesting stuff). Maybe these guys have a stroke of luck/DDoSses (which they can market as well). It does not make the data invalid (hard to validate; yes). They have a reputation to keep up (must be pretty clean).

Now that I think of it: Tier1 family is awfull quiet about DDoS. Good for their business.

If someone is 50% wrong all the time I call him incompetent and fire his ass.

So we need FPGA versions of hardware so we can prove other aspects? Only way to verify besides physical inspection.

Or the possibility to block the IP at the source AS.

Maybe you get privileges with specific data.

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True. Issue is that what was once handily placed on one server, speaking year 2000 here, now needs to be torn apart. Things have history: Early developers are not always good at admin work. Too easy to get it wrong.

We use iotop of course. It was an example of one of many resources: file descriptors, connections, memory, io, bandwidth, ... I agree that a VM can make things harder.

We use OpenVZ, at the moment.