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For those that are getting confused.

What he did was something like this...

C:\Apache\bin\ab.exe -c 500 -n 5000000 -p ab.exe http://yousendit.com/send-it

Using ab.exe to POST the binary ab.exe over and over using the service (yousendit) which send file1 from user1 to user2.
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Thanks for writing that up. I've gotten more interested in SVG ever since Protovis's successor d3 adopted an approach of writing SVG directly. d3's has some impressive demos built on top of SVG in an impressively small amount of code: http://mbostock.github.com/d3/

I do think it's unfortunate that lots of W3C standards like SVG were well-positioned to be very widely used, but ended up being so big, complicated, and not informed by actual implementations. I've ranted about this before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2521885
The article and the FBI statement are a little unclear, but I don't think that's what they mean.

"Beginning in or about December 2008 and continuing through June 2009, Mr. Shaikh sent an ApacheBench computer code to YouSendIt’s servers. ApacheBench is a benchmarking program used for measuring the performance of computers known as web servers. ApacheBench was designed to determine the number of requests per second a server is capable of serving. By intentionally transmitting the ApacheBench program to YouSendIt’s servers, Mr. Shaikh was able to overwhelm the servers’ capabilities and render it unable to handle legitimate network traffic."

I have to think when they say "sent... to" they mean he directed the AB to make requests from YouSendIt's server, not that he posted it to the service. Otherwise the rest of the statement - "able to overwhelm the servers’ capabilities and render it unable to handle legitimate network traffic" - doesn't make any sense, unless someone can explain how simply transmitting the benchmark executable via the service somehow caused that.

(As someone else pointed out, he could have used AB to /post/ AB to the servers... but I don't see anything in these articles to necessarily support that... and it would seem like the payload is less interesting than the transmission method.)
Now imagine a world where anyone could enter a gps coordinate and height and see the activity there, at anytime in the past. You think we'd have TARP? You think we'd be at war in afghanistan? You think we'd have priests fucking children? Lynchings? Drunk driving?

Many think this would be a dystopian future that forces everyone to conform. I believe that if all those people who only pretend to conform were actually required to conform, we'd suddenly see a great debate on what "normal" should actually be.

Asimov wrote a story about this, and seemed to suggest that his view was that the end of privacy would be a bad thing (but maybe I read it wrong).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Past
Wow, link overload in that post. Did he really feel the need to link to the US Government wikipedia page?
Minor nit - unless he was using an EC2 cluster or something, this would be a regular old-fashioned DOS, not a DDOS. It's something of a condemnation of YouSendIt's software and NOC that they weren't able to mitigate a huge number of connections from a single IP. Leveraging a botnet against someone is worlds apart from running a high-concurrency ab test.
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Seriously. We just moved into a 3500 square foot warehouse in Mountain View and we need you.
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SearchYC has been an invaluable tool for me. It's easily tripled the value I've gotten from Hacker News.

Thank you for all your work on it.
Crypto hardware acceleration is commodity. I believe that Broadcom sold the chips for <$5 over 5 years ago. To say they don't scale horizontally doesn't make sense either. If they're integrated with PCIe then you can get a lot of crypto processing in a single chasis. (Disclosure: Used to make crypto accelerators and load balancers)

There surely are reasons not to integrate at the load balancer, but they're not because the load balancer will melt down.
No.

http://www.rcfp.org/taping/interstate.html
Searching is a serious consideration, but I think most people will search for something like 'tigger task manager' or 'tigger cli'. There's enough differentiation between this app and the children's character.

On the other end of the spectrum is 'Numbers', Apple's spreadsheet app. Try Googling for help with that one. Same thing with 'Pages'.

If you need help managing you animated big cat project with pooh and eeyore thru Tigger, then you might be in trouble.
EOL'ing Firefox 4 after just three months does seem pretty abrupt. Many commercial products will support security fixes for the current and previous versions. Of course, Firefox 5 will presumably EOL'd in three months when Firefox 6 is released...
You're right... I was kind of assuming that it would take more than a single computer running AB to do this to any service of this size, but there's nothing in the article to support that.
For anyone too lazy to read the article, I completed the challenge earlier today.
The author replied, mentioning speed, native executables, syntax and simplicity.

I think he has a point, the only thing I'd disagree with is the syntax.. I don't think it's a major problem, considering you get a functional language with powerful pattern-matching.
It is not "my method". Just an explanation of why the law seems intuitive to me. I expected everyone to extrapolate out from my examples for other ending points, and which point, yes, the % for the digit of "1" would drop, and approach that 30% rate.

I just selected end points to illustrate the concept. I think this place is getting a little too literal. :)
Are you getting this from somewhere other than the OP and linked FBI statement? Just wondering if someone else has written about this case...
Why should enterprises pay someone else for support when they can get that in IE(x) with the version of windows they paid to have on said workstation? Honestly it seems like mozilla is pulling out the carpet from enterprises, even tho it was those same enterprises mozilla at one time hoped would bring them market share. This is why so many people have a hard time trusting open source, a perfect example of hidden costs.
Wouldn't it be salespeople making that pitch?
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FBI Raid ready?
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Though an "iPhone Nano" in a watch form-factor like the TikTok's iPod Nano mod would be pretty cool:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1104350651/tiktok-lunati...
So... is this just a case of massive incompetence on the FBI's part? Why would they take the server and not the HDDs?
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Buy one domain, then use one subdomain for each idea.
I didn't even notice that there were a large number of links in the post. I think the majority of them would be useful for someone unfamiliar with some of the topics described, though. The great thing about hypertext is that links are optional, so an abundance, as long as the linked content is of quality, hurts no one.
Searchable site of how many of each car left in the UK
Is the word "commoditized" here being used to imply a reduction in price?
Yeah, but the difference between killing someone and making a website go down is pretty huge. 5 years for a DOS is insane
http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.html

Think Python is fantastic, it was our "textbook" in a python course.
Ideally it's a lot more automated the second time around.
Clarke and Baxter also take this on in a great book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_Other_Days
Indent methods under private? (Ruby style question)
New Patriot Act Controversy: Is Washington Collecting Your Cell-Phone Data?
I've found B2B bulk messaging to be more work in terms of support but not really able to charge any more given the current market for the product.
This article is right.

Firefox (and Chrome) updates should be seen in the same way as virus definition updates - something that can indeed cause chaos [1][2][3], but is too useful and sensible to do any other way. Similarly to virus definition updates, typically these updates don't get tested before being rolled out.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/software/news/2010/03/bitdefender-upd...

[2] http://www.techgeekandmore.com/tag/ca-anti-virus-update-brea...

[3] http://simonedwards.blogspot.com/2010/04/mcafee-anti-virus-u...
One downside of this approach (without some funky iptables/networking-fu) is that you loose the source IP from the original request. Adding headers like X-Forwarded-For only works after the request has been decrypted, so all the traffic will appear to source from the load balancer, which can present its own issues.

IMO (and I believe Google agrees - http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.ht...) the advantages of terminating SSL at the load balancer outweigh the horizontal scalability of this approach, at least in most cases.
>Imagine a large dataset, say something like a list of every country and its population.

How is that a large dataset? There aren't that many countries.
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I wonder if this is a case of "the law" being so far behind technology that it's completely unworkable?

My suspicion is that the FBI had a warrant for somebodies "server", without any consideration given to what "a server" means in terms of physically removable equipment compared to what someone like Marco actually gets when he leases "a server".

I'll bet no one tried to explain to the judge signing the warrant that the "server" they wanted to seize was actually a blade card sitting in a chassis with a bunch of other blades (that were _other_ people's "servers" (on which they were running their businesses), and that the "disks" for the servers they wanted to seize were actually virtual disks sitting on another piece of shared hardware...

And I wonder what we'll be deploying on when the law catches up with today's standard hosting practices?
It's an IE frame for me on Chrome/Win.
It sounds to me like the FBI grabbed the entire enclosure that included their target and unrelated DigitalOne customers, then sorted out which they wanted to keep as evidence from there.
Figuring out what people want is often harder than it looks. Scratch that. It's easy to find some things that people want, or at least say they want. Determining if you can provide something people (claim to) want in a profitable manner is harder to do.
How do you know that he intended to interfere with the company's ability to do business? Sure, that's what the FBI said (channeled, presumably, from YouSendIt), but he could have just been running apache benchmark as a simple test to see how the server would respond.

In fact, the allegation doesn't really make sense, because as the former CTO, if he had really wanted to interfere with the company's ability to do business, you'd think he could have found much better ways to do so. Logging in and deleting the company's data, turning employees/investors against them, or writing negative articles about them would have had a far greater consequence on their business than running an apache benchmark program.

To be clear, I'm not claiming to know what happened; I'm just saying that this press release is a deeply one-sided view of the story, and that the situation smells funny.
See also:

public static boolean isUserAMonkey()

Returns "true" if the user interface is currently being messed with by a monkey.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/ActivityM...
Another gem: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/Sens... gives a gravity constant, on the death star, in imperial units...
Columbia University to cease support for the Kermit Project
Strange. In what kinds of applications?
This is related to http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/monkey.h..., where you can actually test your user interface with a pseudo-monkey.
MS patents 'silently recording communications' 1 ago. Published June 23. Skype?
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The verification process for buyers, and money receiving services is a rather straightforward debitcard existence + validity check. Note, that Paypal's risk exposure in this situation is limited, and they have literally a decade of experience knowing what these risks are.

The verification process for sellers, and especially for people wanting to accept credit cards is another matter entirely. Due to the higher risk exposure for Paypal, a number of factors are taken into consideration here, such as your credit score, personal / business background, nationality, business type, and vertical-specific risk exposure.

You mentioned, that you're doing business via a fake account. For as long as real (non-fraudulent) money is exchanging hands, you're mostly good from PP's risk-exposure POV. However the moment you'll start exposing your account to fraud, and your risk profile goes up, will be the second when Paypal will bail on you, with no recourse -after all, you are using a fake account, and breaking TOS.

Do your own reality-check, and determine if this is an acceptable risk for you to do business via PP. You might want to also start exploring your options, to have at least one other payment provider to fall back on, as insurance.

Hope this helps.
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Sounds like a fun business: hire tens of thousands of sales people, and then gradually lay them off.
Yeah, the everything in one giant file thing is a big problem for collaboration in general (even among designers).

I thought the reason many designers don't join the projects is because many technical people are surly when you try to tell them to put things here and here and here... etc.

It's not like you can't share a dropbox folder then occasionally check into the code base, or never check in the PSDs at all.
We don't know that they didn't seize other hard drives, just not ones used by Instapaper.
Yes, by design the difficulty changes to match the price and not the other way around.
Depending on who you listen to politically, you might die kneeling!
I like that about fireworks too. But many designers love layers upon layers upon layers in the same file to do a whole project if possible.

That doesn't translate well in fireworks OR PSD if you want to collaborate well.
Also related to that: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Monkey_Lives.txt (how a similar tool was used on the original Macintosh)
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Hyper dense farming project [vid]
Why numbering should begin with zero
Research: News: Stanford GSB
The major problem is testing. Many corporations have in-house Web applications—both custom and third-party—that they access through their Web browsers, and before any new browser upgrade can be deployed to users, it must be tested to verify that it works correctly and doesn't cause any trouble with business-critical applications.

Is this really necessary with Firefox or any WebKit browser? If your app is running in Firefox, presumably it's actually written properly to standards (as opposed to being written against whatever Microsoft shipped 10 years ago). Firefox 5 doesn't change that much, just like Chrome releases. (err, what version am I on? Who cares?)
Money quote:

"If a company really does need to perform extensive validation and verification of its software, perhaps using a browser to deliver that software just isn't appropriate."
I just put my chair on top of my desk while reading the post; my laptop is now on it. Ghetto standing desk for the win.
Users spend more time using mobile apps than the Internet, study finds
well, why not? Martian students will need to use something to transfer files. Perhaps SFTP?

The International Space Station still uses Kermit! At least they did in 2003:

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/iss-03zq.html
I'd be really curious to know the frequency of IT departments reaching the conclusion that nope, FireFox x.y should NOT be installed. I have a suspicion that this is some ridiculously lengthy process that always gets a thumbs up at the end. However, I have zero experience in this so I am more than willing to believe that that's not the case.
It's kind of an easter egg since most users will never notice unless it's the few people that make their Finder icons absolutely huge. It's definitely just to poke fun and since it isn't in anyone's face, it's not that unprofessional.
Can you post the code you used for the mp's?

I was thinking to make it into a little web tool.
Well, at this point, that's what he himself has said, since it was a guilty plea. Presumably he had to admit not just his actions but his intent / malice.
Fire near LANL Whole town evacuated
There is a fire very close to Los Alamos National Laboratory. They have begun to evacuate the whole town. Here is some info from someone on the ground: Our main concern is that the Las Conchas fire is about 3 1/2 miles from Area G, the dumpsite that has been in operation since the late 1950s/early 1960s. There are 20,000 to 30,000 55-gallons drums of plutonium contaminated waste (containing solvents, chemicals and toxic materials) sitting in fabric tents above ground. These drums are destined for WIPP. We understand that LANL has been working since late last night to build a fire line in Water Canyon, between the fire and Area G. Over the last 26 hours the fire has grown from 0 acres to about 45,000 acres – about the size of the Cerro Grande fire in 2000.
Hacking a network with an infectious mouse.
You can get "cell phone screens for a couple of dollars" when you buy a few million at a time and have a kickass line of credit. Good luck with that.
Holy crap it's serious! I may have to bug out!
I like the description

What a Terrible Failure

adb lolcat was another andoid easter egg that made me laugh
If they'd called it "Perl NG", then we wouldn't be talking about Perl 5.16. We'd be talking about Perl 21 vs Perl NG.
Size of fingertips is not a constant. Apple could very well release a 3.2" 320v480 display.
I actually live about 10 miles from both my work and where I play. Biking would add about 30 min to my commute each way. Culture probably has a lot to do with my desire too. Biking is almost a way of life in Madison. Creating these bike amenities would be the first step for any city to create this culture.
Then I guess I have to trash my series of studies on coughing, lying in bed, and depression shaving years off your life. Getting grants is hard! /annoyance
Yeah - commoditized in this case is the economics definition.

Generally speaking, once all the participants in a particular market sector are offering the same set of services (or at least, the subset consumers care about), the only area they have to compete on is price - eventually, the price drops to the absolute lowest the service can be offered for. It can still be a viable industry to be in, but it's really not "darling of Wall St" territory.
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Why does session affinity not solve the problem of session caching? The author says it's "a whole other world of pain and suffering" but doesn't explain why.
Check out the pomo gem. It works in a very similar way plus it adds a 25-minute timer for pomodoros. If you add your .pomo file to git would do the same integration.

https://github.com/visionmedia/pomo
You are aware absolutely everything you wrote is the same for developers too, even the programmer part;I've seen hostility towards people offering patches who are more users than programmers.

That's contributing to other people's projects period.

OSS is about scratching an itch, releasing code your business does but does not need to protect, or about self-gratification. While it can be a showpiece, you never get much in the way of fame out of it, no matter what you do.
But it would be odd if the FBI was clueless enough to take an entire rack of servers when they were after just 1, yet smart enough to pick exactly the right drives out of a disk array. (assuming thats even possible)
One assumption is that the FBI took the blade chassis that the target's server lived on (with the Instapaper one as collateral damage) _and_ a NAS box with the target's virtual disks (but a different NAS to the one with the Instapaper disks).

It's also possible the FBI just took a rackful of diskless blade servers, and have no evidence at all, target related or not...
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That sounds like development in general. Freetime workers tend to be an overly contentious lot, demanding lots of justification for non-additive changes. You are "deleting someone's baby" some of the time.