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09/03/09
I suppose the combination of a solid video streaming platform and a solid brand is appealing to some folks. It just doesn't fit, IMHO.
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08/28/09
People, MP3s are not the same as CDs. You're losing when you don't compress
lossless.
08/28/09
Although, granted, still a lot more than 1 CD and I could still put my whole collection on 1 iPod (if I had that big one).
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so in other words man shouldnt concern himself with progression?
08/28/09
OH in the name of Gautama, here we go again...
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Broderbund's Ancient Art of War FTW.
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And how many hulus in a fortnight
08/28/09
And how many twitters in a handbasket?
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08/28/09
83.3 days * 24 hours *60 minutes = 119952 minutes on an ipod
119952/ 80mins on a cd = 1499.4 cds
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1500 CDs * 80 mins = 120,000 mins
120,000 mins / 60 = 2,000 hours
2,000 hours/24 = 83.3 days
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08/28/09
You can go on about the quality difference, and as an audiophile I would agree. But the fact of the matter is that the vast majority of users frankly don't give a toss. So let's try this again.
120GB * 1024MB/GB = 122880 MB.
Given that, at 128kbps, 1MB is about 1 minute of music, which it is,
122880min/(80min/CD) = 1536 CDs.
Since an iPod has a hard drive, and given the discrepancy between advertised and actual hard disk space (1 GB = 1 billion bytes as opposed to 1024^3 bytes), a more accurate calculation would be this:
120*1000*1000*1000/1024/1024 = 114441 MB.
Given that 1MB=1min,
114441min/(80min/CD) = 1431 CDs.
So yes, I'd consider 1500 a fair estimate.
08/07/09
They should have just unfollowed.
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08/07/09
4Chan just speaking of the site itself has always been way too annoying for me to ever use. It's like they started to develop it in 97 and never finished. I still don't understand how people can stand it.As far as the users (hackers) go, I don't care.
Before that they were all on IRC and didn't take stupid risks like going to a site like 4Chan.
08/07/09
If you ever look at 4Chan, do remember to appreciate the moment - because you're looking in the mirror image of our entire society stripped of social norms, laws, false responsibility, peer pressure, cultural influence, forced behaviour and abridged freedom of expression.
This is how sad we really are.
08/07/09
I don't know why there isn't hardware to protect against it, actually. I mean I know there is but it doesn't seem to work particularly well.
How can 10,000 or even 100,000 PCs bring down a website? That's what is baffling to me. Something somewhere is seriously screwy.
One thing is obvious - it is extremely cheap and easy to rent a botnet with a few 10,000 nodes. A few thousands dollars and you are in. There is no relation to the cost of defending against such an attack.
08/07/09
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The data center I used to be in had 24 gig-e connections on all major carriers (att, quest, L3, tw, etc) which put them at an advantage (and their customers). On a few occasions we had some pretty big DDOS attacks which the data center just blocked at the border for us. Our connection was only 100mb, but the DDOS was 2gb. Since the data center had over 24gb we never skipped a beat. Most of the traffic was coming in via ATT so they called up ATT and they dropped the route to our site on their end which put a stop to 80% of the attack. The other attacks were similar in nature and luckily they weren’t well distributed so they were easily blocked.
Articles like this make the art of mitigating a DDOS sound simplistic or even hopeless, but if you are in a good data center, with quality gear, that is usually not the case (not always). The problem with Twitter is if someone farts on it, it goes down.
08/07/09
Blocking traffic is problematic for a whole bunch of reasons, but it's not really necessary. All that's necessary is bandwidth.
I worked for a company that was DDoS'd several times, and the first time was really bad because we just hadn't prepared. We knew what needed to be done (basically calling up our host and telling them to temporarily increase our bandwidth) but it just took around 8 hours to do it. The 2nd and 3rd times were barely a blip, though, because by then we'd gotten new network hardware, had a few "standby" servers ready and also had a new contract that basically added DDoS detection and automatically increased our bandwidth temporarily.
I think most companies just don't do these things until they're hit the first time.
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08/06/09
But seriously, isn't it kind of pathetic that all the countries with closed presses have their own personal volunteer hacker armies taking down some of the largest sites on the net, and the closest we've got is 4chan?
08/06/09
Just past month there's been several high profile DDOS's, the independence day one, the AT&T/4chan one, Gawker at the weekend, then all this stuff yesterday
And I'm sure there's many that don't make it to the news.
Also why is this guy special enough to get someone/somegroup to attack him and the sites he visits?
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