SAN MATEO (02/21/2000) - Will there be a fix for DoS attacks?
"As with all 'denial of service' attacks, there's no creativity, ingenuity, or skill involved whatsoever. Or, to put it in hacker terms: booooring. It's not, as the NBC news anchor put it, '21st century crime'; it's just 'so 20th century.' ""Without badgering the middlemen ISPs, I don't see any easy technical solution.
There is no fast way to tell a good forgery from real packets. They could look just like HTTP page requests from a regular shopper."
"The final response to this kind of activity may be that Amazon.com Inc., CNN, and the like decide to take traffic only from 'legitimate/managed' ISPs such as America Online Inc., AT&T Corp., and GTE Corp. A new protocol won't deliver e-mail unless the send and return addresses are from a 'registered' ISP. The smaller ISPs lose out as 'big' ISPs and e-commerce companies circle the wagons to protect their vendors and users. The Wild Wild West is about to be tamed ...
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Will Linux fragment?
"To be competitive, Linux will eventually have to split into two versions. An industrial-strength product emphasizing SMP [symmetric multiprocessing], stability, interoperability, and heavy networking simply isn't going to be appropriate for home computers, which need blazing sound and video above all."
"Even if it splits, you still should have compatibility. Say somebody makes 'Desktop' Linux (such as Corel). Will anybody write only for Desktop Linux?
Unlikely."
What technologies have one foot in the grave?
"Windows 2000 would be my prime choice. Why? With 65,000 'issues' so close to its Feb. 17 release date, one can make a safe wager that the new OS is going to be as buggy as hell."
"Here are my two candidates: Microsoft's Active Directory [AD] and IBM's Monterey Unix. AD will be just too painful to implement, and a buggy directory service is worse than no directory service at all. Monterey just seems to be one too many Unix flavors at this point. AIX is underrated as an OS, but I would bet that IBM refocuses on three OSes: OS 390, Linux, and Windows. My bet would be that work being done on Monterey will be rolled into Linux."
"Java is a broken fad language that either needs to change or die. The only way to make Java worthwhile is to find a way to implement a real dynamic object-oriented language on top of its broken little virtual machine. Thus, I want into the guts of the beast. Where is the stuff?"