Comment: FYI (Score 4, Informative) 7
Local attack only.
Comment: as a bicycle rider (Score 1) 238
I have to say wow, a car for everybody!
Comment: Whats the point? (Score 2, Interesting) 172
I was part of one of the previous class action suits. After years of waiting all I got was a coupon for a $15 discount on windows or office.
Researchers Warn of Possible BitTorrent Meltdown 294
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kdawson
from the domino-effect dept.
from the domino-effect dept.
secmartin writes "Researchers at Delft University warn that large parts of the BitTorrent network might collapse if The Pirate Bay is forced to shut down. A large part of the available torrents use The Pirate Bay as tracker, and other available trackers will probably be overloaded if all traffic is shifted there. TPB is currently using eight servers for their trackers. According to the researchers, even trackerless torrents using the DHT protocol will face problems: 'One bug in a DHT sorting routine ensures that it can only "stumble upon success", meaning torrent downloads will not start in seconds or minutes if Pirate Bay goes down in flames.'"
FreeBSD 6.4 Released 64
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timothy
from the unsung-but-nicely-free dept.
from the unsung-but-nicely-free dept.
hmallett writes "FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE, the fifth release from the 6-STABLE branch of FreeBSD development, is now available. In addition to being hosted at many FTP sites, ISO images can be downloaded via the BitTorrent tracker, or for users of earlier FreeBSD releases, FreeBSD Update can be used to perform a binary upgrade."
Comment: less? (Score 1) 335
Seems like every time there is a story about a spammer getting shut down , the amount of spam that I get increases.
How Do I Talk To 4th Graders About IT? 531
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kdawson
from the just-promise-you-won't-introduce-them-to-basic dept.
from the just-promise-you-won't-introduce-them-to-basic dept.
Tsunayoshi writes "My son volunteered me to give a presentation on what I do for a living for career day at his elementary school. I need to come up with a roughly 20-minute presentation to be given to 4-5 different classrooms. I am a systems administrator, primarily Unix/Linux and enterprise NAS/SAN storage, working for an aerospace company. I was thinking something along the lines of explaining how some everyday things they experience (websites, telephone systems, etc.) all depend on servers, and those servers are maintained by systems administrators. I was also going to talk about what I do specifically, which is maintain the computer systems that allow the really smart rocket scientists to get things into space. Am I on the right track? Can anyone suggest some good (and cheap/easy to make) visual aids?"
+ - Conservative Website Blames "Liberal" Deve 2
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Kizzle
Kizzle writes "RedState.com, a conservative political website, is asking for donations because they want to upgrade their software. Why? FTA:
"When we started RedState in May of 2004, we used a website program called Scoop — the same program a lot of similar sites on the left used. But, as the number of visitors to our site grew, Scoop kept crashing on us...If we'd been a liberal website, we would have been able to fix the problem quickly and relatively cheaply. The online left loves Scoop. Unfortunately, there weren't really any conservative Scoop developers out there to help us. We kept crashing and were out of money. We had to close down or take drastic action.