Yes,
It's completely irrational to expect an ISP to deliver the promised XMbit/s as mush as a paying customer desires as it is clearly documented in Section 5, subsection two, paragraph three that "we reserve the right to throttle, inject, or alter any traffic subject to our own (and secret) fair usage policy."
Of course we can't expect these poor ISPs to reasonable provision their networks to the capacity they have sold.
If you feel this sounds correct I have a unlimited hosting package that would be perfect for you.
What likely happened (I speak from experience as someone who did this) is that the server that they were hosted on was over X% of disk space usage.
So the $8/h technician assigned to that server goes on the server and does a find for any files larger than X and maybe files matching some "bad" extensions like "mp3,avi,mpeg" etc.
Technician finds ANY mp3 files on a account and immediately asks for "proof of copyright" (they mean proof of authorization to distribute). 'Quote Unquote Records' fails to provide "proof" and is suspended.
This was part of my responsibilities as a level 3 tech at large shared hosting provider.
The main issue here is IX is not being as "copyright" hero or even protecting their own legal ass; they are simply out to reduce the costs of their overselling.
The practical solution to this problem when HOSTING any files that could possibility be considered "copyrighted content" by the dumbest moron you can find is to CONTACT YOUR HOST FIRST and have them note on the account that the content is YOURS.
The ideal solution is to a) host your own shit b) go with a reputable provider.
I think the best solution would be just implementing TLS everywhere were security is wanted/needed. The latency and cpu time would be the major issues with this solution but cpu time is becoming cheaper.
This would allow to optionally use http for cheap and insensitive content or use a full https if you are paranoid. I think pressure needs to be put on service providers to protect users from themselves.
i.e. I can't see why service providers are still allowing smtp, imap, pop, and ftp when TLS or ssl is available.
To implement TLS for a large amount of sites you need to pick IPv6 or SNI.
Browsers that support SNI: Opera 8.0+ Firefox 2+ Internet Explorer 7+
According to wc3 22.3% are still using IE 6.
So as much as I hate to say it the sooner Vista becomes the norm for Windows users the sooner this becomes a viable option.
IPv6: due to the slow rate of adoption I don't think this would be viable for years.
The problem with the article's proposal is that it requires that the encryption functionality to be built into EVERY protocol that wishes to take advantage of it. IMHO this seems to be going against exactly that the OSI model was intended to prevent.
If you want to add a Diffie-Hellman key exchange to only http why not just extend the protocol instead of the headers non-sense?
It doesn't really make sense to use a separate url scheme because your really using the same protocol.
Secondly the same people that don't care to be educated in man-in-the-middle attacks probably wont notice the difference between 'httpi', 'https' and probably even 'http'. It's the lock picture they look for if they look for anything.
Q. Can ComputracePlus be detected? A. On most PCs, the Computrace Agent, which powers ComputracePlus, is silent and invisible and will not be detected by looking at the disk directory or running a utility that examines RAM. On many PCs â€" depending on their operating system â€" the Agent cannot be erased off the hard drive by deleting files because it is not visible in file directories. The Agent can survive a hard drive re-format, F-disk command and hard drive re-partitioning. The Agent can be removed by an authorized user with the correct password and installation software.
[b]On a Mac system, it is very difficult for a standard user to deliberately or accidentally delete the Agent as the files cannot be deleted by anyone other than the root user.[/b]
<quote><p>Why does the increased space increase operating costs? I'd assume that the datacenter owns the land / building it is situated on / in. So that's a sunk cost, not a recurring one. Just because the building is bigger doesn't automatically imply higher maintenance costs, especially as it is less full. What is the other cost that increases?</p></quote>
Every bit of space your not using for a server is money your not making.
Last I checked land/building space is not cheap. You need to think of the additional cooling, heating, cabling, and cleaning costs.
Non-standard equipment is significantly more expensive even if it became a standard early adopters would still have to pay a premium.
The 'at home' solution may offer "total control" but you sacrifice most of the benefits of being in a proper facility.
Brief List: Proper network infrastructure -redundant routes -Uplink capability 7Mbit may be enough now, but what happens when you need more than that? -Network reliability, Do you have a SLA? Power infrastructure -Backup generator? -UPS? -Multiple 15A circuits to your "rack"? Cooling?
IMHO this type of setup is NOT worth it and you are best going with a decent co-location provider or lease a server from a decent company.
Most co-location companies will not even look at your server without a work order. If your server causes trouble they will disable the switch port(s) your plugged into.
The dictionary definitions of the word seem to differ from yours.
The Merriam-Webster online dictionary lists five different definitions of the word "cult."[15]
1. Formal religious veneration 2. A system of religious beliefs and ritual; also: its body of adherents; 3. A religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also: its body of adherents; 4. A system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator; 5. Great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book).
The Random House Unabridged Dictionary's eight definitions of "cult" are:
1. A particular system of religious worship, esp. with reference to its rites and ceremonies; 2. An instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, esp. as manifested by a body of admirers; 3. The object of such devotion; 4. A group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc; 5. Group having a sacred ideology and a set of rites centering around their sacred symbols; 6. A religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader; 7. The members of such a religion or sect; 8. Any system for treating human sickness that originated by a person usually claiming to have sole insight into the nature of disease, and that employs methods regarded as unorthodox or unscientific.
See Wikipedia for more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult
The ip address field in a packet has a fixed length of 32 bytes. Increasing this value would break any device that operated at a higher OSI level than layer 2.
Routers
Layer 3 Switches
Applications
TCP/IP Stack implementations.
This would almost be the same as switching to IPv6.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4
Is it just me or would anybody be a little hesitant to test an automated targeting system with live ammunition without doing the following:
1) Setup a completely independent kill-switch that interrupts the weapons power-source.
2) If you are going to limit the bloody swing of the weapon, implement the restriction pro grammatically -- guns are too expensive to bang into poles, and make sure your poles can withstand at least 2x the amount of force the gun can swing at.
3) Be no where near the bloody thing when you turn it on.
4) Test the bloody thing before using live ammunition.
Why not just setup a spam filter that not only stops these emails but helpfully forwards the emails to the abuse@ address for the network. I'm sure comcast, roadrunner, and AOL would love our help in tracking these exploited customers down. *grin*
Not joking. Did that few weeks back -- I even went through the Mc Donalds drive-thru on the way home.
Has anyone else noticed that people tend to almost deliberately do stupid shit when your drunking?
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Yes, It's completely irrational to expect an ISP to deliver the promised XMbit/s as mush as a paying customer desires as it is clearly documented in Section 5, subsection two, paragraph three that "we reserve the right to throttle, inject, or alter any traffic subject to our own (and secret) fair usage policy." Of course we can't expect these poor ISPs to reasonable provision their networks to the capacity they have sold. If you feel this sounds correct I have a unlimited hosting package that would be perfect for you.
ICANN (A US Corporation) controls the root '.' DNS zone. They are the only company that can add DNSSEC. (Ignoring alternative root servers)
Maybe us grammar nazis have a point.
Maybe grammar nazis like us have a point.
Maybe grammar Nazis like us have a point.
I'm not a cryptographer but this sounds exactly like a Diffie-Hellman key exchange except using photos to generate the key.
You would need still a copy of both photos to be able to decrypt the transmitted.
This assumes that the key-space used is large enough that a old fashioned brute-force isn't feasible.
but does it run Linux?
The problem is that there WAS no DMCA notice.
What likely happened (I speak from experience as someone who did this) is that the server that they were hosted on was over X% of disk space usage.
So the $8/h technician assigned to that server goes on the server and does a find for any files larger than X and maybe files matching some "bad" extensions like "mp3,avi,mpeg" etc.
Technician finds ANY mp3 files on a account and immediately asks for "proof of copyright" (they mean proof of authorization to distribute). 'Quote Unquote Records' fails to provide "proof" and is suspended.
This was part of my responsibilities as a level 3 tech at large shared hosting provider.
The main issue here is IX is not being as "copyright" hero or even protecting their own legal ass; they are simply out to reduce the costs of their overselling.
The practical solution to this problem when HOSTING any files that could possibility be considered "copyrighted content" by the dumbest moron you can find is to CONTACT YOUR HOST FIRST and have them note on the account that the content is YOURS.
The ideal solution is to a) host your own shit b) go with a reputable provider.
I think the best solution would be just implementing TLS everywhere were security is wanted/needed. The latency and cpu time would be the major issues with this solution but cpu time is becoming cheaper.
This would allow to optionally use http for cheap and insensitive content or use a full https if you are paranoid. I think pressure needs to be put on service providers to protect users from themselves.
i.e. I can't see why service providers are still allowing smtp, imap, pop, and ftp when TLS or ssl is available.
To implement TLS for a large amount of sites you need to pick IPv6 or SNI.
Browsers that support SNI:
Opera 8.0+
Firefox 2+
Internet Explorer 7+
According to wc3 22.3% are still using IE 6.
So as much as I hate to say it the sooner Vista becomes the norm for Windows users the sooner this becomes a viable option.
IPv6: due to the slow rate of adoption I don't think this would be viable for years.
The problem with the article's proposal is that it requires that the encryption functionality to be built into EVERY protocol that wishes to take advantage of it. IMHO this seems to be going against exactly that the OSI model was intended to prevent.
If you want to add a Diffie-Hellman key exchange to only http why not just extend the protocol instead of the headers non-sense?
It doesn't really make sense to use a separate url scheme because your really using the same protocol.
Secondly the same people that don't care to be educated in man-in-the-middle attacks probably wont notice the difference between 'httpi', 'https' and probably even 'http'. It's the lock picture they look for if they look for anything.
Questions like that wouldn't stop me when I'm drunk.
I've been called into work to fix a down server pissed drunk and it didn't cause any problems.
Q. Can ComputracePlus be detected?
A. On most PCs, the Computrace Agent, which powers ComputracePlus, is silent and invisible and will not be detected by looking at the disk directory or running a utility that examines RAM. On many PCs â€" depending on their operating system â€" the Agent cannot be erased off the hard drive by deleting files because it is not visible in file directories. The Agent can survive a hard drive re-format, F-disk command and hard drive re-partitioning. The Agent can be removed by an authorized user with the correct password and installation software.
[b]On a Mac system, it is very difficult for a standard user to deliberately or accidentally delete the Agent as the files cannot be deleted by anyone other than the root user.[/b]
I call bullshit.
I misread that.
I don't think it is possible to enforce restraints on the output of an application.
Think of the implications of Microsoft if was able to have a similar clause in Microsoft Word, Wordpad, notepad, or even Windows.
I think the best thing he can do is ask for citations/attribution.
Not one of 'em crazy academics but wouldn't this do?
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/
<quote><p>Why does the increased space increase operating costs? I'd assume that the datacenter owns the land / building it is situated on / in. So that's a sunk cost, not a recurring one. Just because the building is bigger doesn't automatically imply higher maintenance costs, especially as it is less full. What is the other cost that increases?</p></quote>
Every bit of space your not using for a server is money your not making.
Last I checked land/building space is not cheap. You need to think of the additional cooling, heating, cabling, and cleaning costs.
Non-standard equipment is significantly more expensive even if it became a standard early adopters would still have to pay a premium.
In Space, no one can hear you blog.
Because GMail stores the messages (and indexes them) in clear-text and every the server that SENT the email to Gmail's server used plain SMTP.
/could/ be reading your latest lecture about missing the toilet seat.
This means that the postmaster
An Open DNS server is a server that allows recursive queries from any host.
The 'at home' solution may offer "total control" but you sacrifice most of the benefits of being in a proper facility.
Brief List:
Proper network infrastructure
-redundant routes
-Uplink capability 7Mbit may be enough now, but what happens when you need more than that?
-Network reliability, Do you have a SLA?
Power infrastructure
-Backup generator?
-UPS?
-Multiple 15A circuits to your "rack"?
Cooling?
IMHO this type of setup is NOT worth it and you are best going with a decent co-location provider or lease a server from a decent company.
Most co-location companies will not even look at your server without a work order. If your server causes trouble they will disable the switch port(s) your plugged into.
The dictionary definitions of the word seem to differ from yours.
The Merriam-Webster online dictionary lists five different definitions of the word "cult."[15]
1. Formal religious veneration
2. A system of religious beliefs and ritual; also: its body of adherents;
3. A religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also: its body of adherents;
4. A system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator;
5. Great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book).
The Random House Unabridged Dictionary's eight definitions of "cult" are:
1. A particular system of religious worship, esp. with reference to its rites and ceremonies;
2. An instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, esp. as manifested by a body of admirers;
3. The object of such devotion;
4. A group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc;
5. Group having a sacred ideology and a set of rites centering around their sacred symbols;
6. A religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader;
7. The members of such a religion or sect;
8. Any system for treating human sickness that originated by a person usually claiming to have sole insight into the nature of disease, and that employs methods regarded as unorthodox or unscientific.
See Wikipedia for more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult
* that's 32 bits not bytes. (4 bytes) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4 has a nice diagram.
The ip address field in a packet has a fixed length of 32 bytes. Increasing this value would break any device that operated at a higher OSI level than layer 2. Routers Layer 3 Switches Applications TCP/IP Stack implementations. This would almost be the same as switching to IPv6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4
Tell that to NASA http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/09/1926236
Is it just me or would anybody be a little hesitant to test an automated targeting system with live ammunition without doing the following: 1) Setup a completely independent kill-switch that interrupts the weapons power-source. 2) If you are going to limit the bloody swing of the weapon, implement the restriction pro grammatically -- guns are too expensive to bang into poles, and make sure your poles can withstand at least 2x the amount of force the gun can swing at. 3) Be no where near the bloody thing when you turn it on. 4) Test the bloody thing before using live ammunition.
Why not just setup a spam filter that not only stops these emails but helpfully forwards the emails to the abuse@ address for the network. I'm sure comcast, roadrunner, and AOL would love our help in tracking these exploited customers down. *grin*
" it maxes out with a 250 GB hard drive" Looks like someone copied the Windows version of the promo. :P
Not joking. Did that few weeks back -- I even went through the Mc Donalds drive-thru on the way home. Has anyone else noticed that people tend to almost deliberately do stupid shit when your drunking?