NLB (Network Load Balancing) Cluster, link the two together and have them both serve the website. Not only will it not go down (barring freak accidents like both locations being hit at once) but it will also have the added benefit of presumably double the bandwidth and such.
Only problem is if you're locating them in two separate locations that they need to be able to communicate with each other and keep identical copies of the website and be able to connect to any databases you may need.
Basically any server clustering type setup if you can connect the two remotely would probably be a good starting point for your website assuming it is that important that it dont go down ever.
I'm pissed off at being bombarded with Ads day in and day out. Some advertising you dont even realize.
I wake up, I look over at the cable box to get the time. Hey look its got a ROGERS logo. I take a look at the TV and there's a Toshiba logo, apparently some lame infomercial is on for the newest weight loss miracle pill or some bowflex gym or some food preparation device not sure what because I flip the channel to the discovery channel to watch Mythbusters if possible.
I get up, I goto the bathroom, I pick up my toothbrush and its got a Crest Logo on it, my toothpaste has an Aquafresh logo on it, I goto the kitchen where I pick up my cereal and see yet another company logo. See some cleaning products with more logos on it before I pick up my bag with yet another logo on it and my laptop which has no logo (didnt buy a Dell LOL) and goto the car where there is yet another logo and drive to school.
Oh on the way to school we're bombarded with yet more logos and advertising from store signs to flyers pasted up on telephone poles to trucks driving by... Get to school end up seeing more logos for the food court junk and stuff to join school clubs and junk... Go home see the same crap.
About the only time you arent bombarded with ads is when you are sleeping. Even then if you accidentally leave your TV on you may be getting subliminal messages (as stupid as it sounds it might actually work).
Anyways... Things like Adblock Plus and other crap are simply the customers getting sick of being blasted with ads. You probably see on average at least 2 ads every 30 seconds from when you wake up till when you goto bed.
I do not believe they are saying that we should have NO FIREWALLS at all. I think the idea is to have more permissive firewalls since with that many IP addresses available in IPv6 the odds someone will be RANDOMLY scanning and hitting something for someone is so remote that it is almost a guarantee that they're specifically looking for you.
The current scanning networks and such works because of one thing, you can almost count on hitting some IP addresses at any given block on the IPv4 network. Also because like 90% of computers are running windows you can probably scan for vulnerabilities and attack almost as quickly.
Fact remains that regardless if someone were to take your SSN, name, address, etc... and post them to a website they'd be shoved in jail on any number of counts most likely fraud.
Why is it any different for a company supplying information to the government without a legal warrant? Shouldnt be any different except the fact is that they are giving the information to the people who actually make the laws... Even though supposedly we the people are supposed to be the ones making the laws.
Gotta love how the government is selling out to corporate interests even more than before. Sounds like its about time people start incorporating themselves so that they get all these nifty rights and privilages corporations get.
After everyone has bought at least 10 CDs filled with garbage songs and bought a different version for your computer, your CD player, your MP3 player and your car stereo, etc...
They want your money any way they can get it. After you've bought your CD it is yours so instead of selling it to some stupid store sell it to your buddy.
A fancy way for these guys to get around the restriction. Heres a $10 voucher for store credit... Dont worry you can redeem it for cash after this transaction is over. Boom all nice and legal like after all its two separate transactions.
OS flaws are inherently flaws in the code itself. The end users are not the ones that are the ones that programmed the OS in the first place.
Regardless, the end users actions often do bring their problems on themselves. They do this by opening email attachments with exe, bat, etc... extensions. They do it by surfing the web with Internet Exploder. They do it by not having Antivirus/Anti-Spyware/Basic Firewalls set up to prevent this.
People do not need to be IT professionals, they just need to have a slightly more cautious experience online. This means not opening spam email, not clicking on attachments from people you dont know and most of all installing 'The Basics' (Spybot, Avast Anti-Virus, turning on Windows Firewall as sucky as it it)... Or they could switch to Linux and the problems would end up 'How come I cant play <insert video game here>':)
Closed Source is all about competition. If you want to make a new image editor in a closed source model then you are going to end up competing with Photoshop at some point or another. You can compete based on price, features, etc... And lets face it at $600 a copy for Photoshop it isnt that hard to compete in terms of price.
Open Source is admittedly more about co-operation and some degree of competition. This is why you have projects like Gimp which seem to overshadow other OSS image editing software. If you want a feature and you already use a software you are more likely to submit the idea to the project or if they are knowledgeable in coding do it themselves and offer it.
After all Open Source is all about not having to reinvent the wheel everytime you want to build a car.
The biggest cost isnt the physical media (well maybe it used to be). It also isnt the money going to the artist. The biggest costs are in marketing and lawyers. To recoup these costs and make some change for themselves they put the price as high as the (mostly) free market will permit them to do so.
So yeah when you buy that CD, you're paying for all their marketing campaigns and for lawyers who are going out and suing the ass off 10 year old kids, but not the 10 year old kids of the guy who owns Time Warner though, oh no they just get a stern talking to and an increase in their allowance so they can buy as many CDs as they please without having to download them.
Yeah especially considering that magnetic media is good for at best 10 years, and CD/DVD is only good for umm what? 20-25 years?
I'm not quite sure on the exact values but copyright extends longer than the shelf life of storage media when its stashed away.
Ok lets get this straight. The guy is an Australian citizen who has never been to the USA. This means that presumably the guy does not have any citizenship or dual citizenship with the USA that would place him under US Law formally in any way, shape or form.
The guy pirated some stuff and/or helped other people pirate stuff. I'm not saying piracy is good or anything, I'm sure every one of us has at least one piece of shareware/nagware or out and out pirated copy of something on out machines. Either way this guy broke Australian law, on Australian soil.
About the only way I could see there being a case for extradition is if his website was hosted on a server in the USA (Although I imagine a guy as smart as this would have been smart enough to avoid the use of an American webserver). Which would place his content on US soil (despite never having set foot there) and thus have it subjected to the laws of the USA meaning the big bad DMCA.
Of course if the US wants to enforce the DMCA worldwide, all they have to do is make sure they bomb every single webserver in existance:) or strong-arm countries like Australia into coughing up their citizens when its convenient for the US.
I think it is on slashdot because the whole Digg revolt is actually showing a new socio-political form of protest, bringing civil disobedience into the virtual world. Before you would have to show up to a rally, carry a big sign, shout and chant stuff and then get beat up by police with nightsticks, peppersprayed, shot with rubber bullets, tear gassed, ect... but who has the time or energy for that these days.
Sit at home, find a piece of info that some company does not want the world to know and post it onto a site like Digg, Slashdot or some other popular site and kick back and watch the fireworks. The reason it is/was so successful was because of the response it got from AACS-LA, they issued hundreds or thousands of DMCA take-down notices. If it looked like they did not give a crap then odds are high that nothing would have happened.
This is 100% the result of a big bad corporation deciding to try and stomp on the rights of the consumers and citizens and in this case instead of laying down and taking their beating like a good citizen is supposed to they stood up and gave AACS-LA a kick in the balls. Trying to censor something is the quickest way to make sure everyone knows about it.
Plus sometimes it takes a childish tantrum to get people to take a look at a real problem (DMCA)
Everyone knows the real terrorists are in Washington controlling the media to scare everyone so they can pass more bullshit laws like DMCA's and Patriot Acts
Still does not matter unless they encrypt the line between your keyboard and the computer. Thieves and Attackers will always go for the weakest link. This is why keyloggers are likely gaining in popularity.
The entire idea behind encryption is to make it difficult/impossible to the casual hacker. If someone were dedicated to get into the information contained within however it would only be a matter of two variables... Time and Processing power.
Encryption is not a silver bullet to any and all security problems, it just mitigates some of the risk. If they cant crack the encryption within 20 years then most of the info would be useless by then. If they can do it in 3 months then its a problem...
I'm all for the chinese stealing Disneyland too. They probably make 90% of the merchandise sold at the real versions why should they have to go halfway around the world to enjoy themselves.
Of course I'm canadian so if I feel the need to burn a CD I've more than paid my share in levy's on my DVD-RW's that I've burned Linux distros on to cover the cost of a dozen or so CDs. Of course I've never burned a CD for my own use before so I'm out $23-25 dollars thats likely being used by canadian versions of the RIAA/MPAA to lobby for more DMCA-like laws up north. *sigh*
It is not, there is always options that may or may not be present in the real world.
1) Log off
2) Contact the admin and report the incident (probably considered sexual harassment not 'rape')
3) Boot them (if you own the system and/or land in the case of SL)
4) Ignore them (most places have built in ignore/ban features to filter unwanted people)
The only way to be a victim is to let yourself be victimized.
There is a difference between what you do in your private life and what you do in your public/professional life.
Myself, I keep that annoying little nagware stuff on my computer at home because the prices for them are ridiculous. $30 for WinZip or WinRAR? GTFO.
In your private life you are only beholden to one person, yourself. If you screw up then its your ass in the fryer. In your public/professional life you are beholden to the company and the owner as well as all sorts of legal regulations and such. If you screw up then its both your ass and the company's ass in the fryer.
While I might download some music or a few episodes of XYZ show on the internet at home. I would not do such at the office. I might even pirate a game or two to try it out before buying it. I might do such at home so I can evaluate a software package at home so that I'm able to make an informed decision at the office but usually I just delete whatever because its crap. Needless to say as the head of IT in your department or whatever you have the responsibility to guard both your ass as well as the company's ass. By getting liscenses (bleh I dont like paying M$) and/or offering up open source alternatives (Yay, Open Office!) you are not only saving your own ass, you are saving the ass of the company as well. Just like others have said, if you put in pirated software and some disgruntled employee decides to cash in on a $1000 bonus for tipping off the BSA you are the one that is screwed.
Slashdot Mirror
NLB (Network Load Balancing) Cluster, link the two together and have them both serve the website. Not only will it not go down (barring freak accidents like both locations being hit at once) but it will also have the added benefit of presumably double the bandwidth and such.
Only problem is if you're locating them in two separate locations that they need to be able to communicate with each other and keep identical copies of the website and be able to connect to any databases you may need.
Basically any server clustering type setup if you can connect the two remotely would probably be a good starting point for your website assuming it is that important that it dont go down ever.
You know... Before we get this 'robot rights' thing down, we should get the whole 'human rights' thing right first.
I'm pissed off at being bombarded with Ads day in and day out. Some advertising you dont even realize.
I wake up, I look over at the cable box to get the time. Hey look its got a ROGERS logo. I take a look at the TV and there's a Toshiba logo, apparently some lame infomercial is on for the newest weight loss miracle pill or some bowflex gym or some food preparation device not sure what because I flip the channel to the discovery channel to watch Mythbusters if possible.
I get up, I goto the bathroom, I pick up my toothbrush and its got a Crest Logo on it, my toothpaste has an Aquafresh logo on it, I goto the kitchen where I pick up my cereal and see yet another company logo. See some cleaning products with more logos on it before I pick up my bag with yet another logo on it and my laptop which has no logo (didnt buy a Dell LOL) and goto the car where there is yet another logo and drive to school.
Oh on the way to school we're bombarded with yet more logos and advertising from store signs to flyers pasted up on telephone poles to trucks driving by... Get to school end up seeing more logos for the food court junk and stuff to join school clubs and junk... Go home see the same crap.
About the only time you arent bombarded with ads is when you are sleeping. Even then if you accidentally leave your TV on you may be getting subliminal messages (as stupid as it sounds it might actually work).
Anyways... Things like Adblock Plus and other crap are simply the customers getting sick of being blasted with ads. You probably see on average at least 2 ads every 30 seconds from when you wake up till when you goto bed.
...Its called an OFF button and I know how to use it.
I do not believe they are saying that we should have NO FIREWALLS at all. I think the idea is to have more permissive firewalls since with that many IP addresses available in IPv6 the odds someone will be RANDOMLY scanning and hitting something for someone is so remote that it is almost a guarantee that they're specifically looking for you.
The current scanning networks and such works because of one thing, you can almost count on hitting some IP addresses at any given block on the IPv4 network. Also because like 90% of computers are running windows you can probably scan for vulnerabilities and attack almost as quickly.
Fact remains that regardless if someone were to take your SSN, name, address, etc... and post them to a website they'd be shoved in jail on any number of counts most likely fraud.
Why is it any different for a company supplying information to the government without a legal warrant? Shouldnt be any different except the fact is that they are giving the information to the people who actually make the laws... Even though supposedly we the people are supposed to be the ones making the laws.
Gotta love how the government is selling out to corporate interests even more than before. Sounds like its about time people start incorporating themselves so that they get all these nifty rights and privilages corporations get.
After everyone has bought at least 10 CDs filled with garbage songs and bought a different version for your computer, your CD player, your MP3 player and your car stereo, etc...
They want your money any way they can get it. After you've bought your CD it is yours so instead of selling it to some stupid store sell it to your buddy.
A fancy way for these guys to get around the restriction. Heres a $10 voucher for store credit... Dont worry you can redeem it for cash after this transaction is over. Boom all nice and legal like after all its two separate transactions.
OS flaws are inherently flaws in the code itself. The end users are not the ones that are the ones that programmed the OS in the first place.
:)
Regardless, the end users actions often do bring their problems on themselves. They do this by opening email attachments with exe, bat, etc... extensions. They do it by surfing the web with Internet Exploder. They do it by not having Antivirus/Anti-Spyware/Basic Firewalls set up to prevent this.
People do not need to be IT professionals, they just need to have a slightly more cautious experience online. This means not opening spam email, not clicking on attachments from people you dont know and most of all installing 'The Basics' (Spybot, Avast Anti-Virus, turning on Windows Firewall as sucky as it it)... Or they could switch to Linux and the problems would end up 'How come I cant play <insert video game here>'
Closed Source is all about competition. If you want to make a new image editor in a closed source model then you are going to end up competing with Photoshop at some point or another. You can compete based on price, features, etc... And lets face it at $600 a copy for Photoshop it isnt that hard to compete in terms of price.
Open Source is admittedly more about co-operation and some degree of competition. This is why you have projects like Gimp which seem to overshadow other OSS image editing software. If you want a feature and you already use a software you are more likely to submit the idea to the project or if they are knowledgeable in coding do it themselves and offer it.
After all Open Source is all about not having to reinvent the wheel everytime you want to build a car.
The biggest cost isnt the physical media (well maybe it used to be). It also isnt the money going to the artist. The biggest costs are in marketing and lawyers. To recoup these costs and make some change for themselves they put the price as high as the (mostly) free market will permit them to do so.
So yeah when you buy that CD, you're paying for all their marketing campaigns and for lawyers who are going out and suing the ass off 10 year old kids, but not the 10 year old kids of the guy who owns Time Warner though, oh no they just get a stern talking to and an increase in their allowance so they can buy as many CDs as they please without having to download them.
Man this has tinfoil hat written all over it... Why wasn't the contractor given a government issued one?
I mean really, nanotech in coins? They use nanotech in computer processors and look how much time and effort it takes to make one of them.
...no Blue Screen of Death
Yeah especially considering that magnetic media is good for at best 10 years, and CD/DVD is only good for umm what? 20-25 years? I'm not quite sure on the exact values but copyright extends longer than the shelf life of storage media when its stashed away.
Ok lets get this straight. The guy is an Australian citizen who has never been to the USA. This means that presumably the guy does not have any citizenship or dual citizenship with the USA that would place him under US Law formally in any way, shape or form.
:) or strong-arm countries like Australia into coughing up their citizens when its convenient for the US.
The guy pirated some stuff and/or helped other people pirate stuff. I'm not saying piracy is good or anything, I'm sure every one of us has at least one piece of shareware/nagware or out and out pirated copy of something on out machines. Either way this guy broke Australian law, on Australian soil.
About the only way I could see there being a case for extradition is if his website was hosted on a server in the USA (Although I imagine a guy as smart as this would have been smart enough to avoid the use of an American webserver). Which would place his content on US soil (despite never having set foot there) and thus have it subjected to the laws of the USA meaning the big bad DMCA.
Of course if the US wants to enforce the DMCA worldwide, all they have to do is make sure they bomb every single webserver in existance
I think it is on slashdot because the whole Digg revolt is actually showing a new socio-political form of protest, bringing civil disobedience into the virtual world. Before you would have to show up to a rally, carry a big sign, shout and chant stuff and then get beat up by police with nightsticks, peppersprayed, shot with rubber bullets, tear gassed, ect... but who has the time or energy for that these days.
Sit at home, find a piece of info that some company does not want the world to know and post it onto a site like Digg, Slashdot or some other popular site and kick back and watch the fireworks. The reason it is/was so successful was because of the response it got from AACS-LA, they issued hundreds or thousands of DMCA take-down notices. If it looked like they did not give a crap then odds are high that nothing would have happened.
This is 100% the result of a big bad corporation deciding to try and stomp on the rights of the consumers and citizens and in this case instead of laying down and taking their beating like a good citizen is supposed to they stood up and gave AACS-LA a kick in the balls. Trying to censor something is the quickest way to make sure everyone knows about it.
Plus sometimes it takes a childish tantrum to get people to take a look at a real problem (DMCA)
...that trying to issue a thousands of DMCA take down notices is the fastest way to proliferate something :)
Oh yeah and the fact that DMCA take down notices only apply to servers in the US.
Linux?
Everyone knows the real terrorists are in Washington controlling the media to scare everyone so they can pass more bullshit laws like DMCA's and Patriot Acts
Still does not matter unless they encrypt the line between your keyboard and the computer. Thieves and Attackers will always go for the weakest link. This is why keyloggers are likely gaining in popularity.
Encryption is not undefeatable.
The entire idea behind encryption is to make it difficult/impossible to the casual hacker. If someone were dedicated to get into the information contained within however it would only be a matter of two variables... Time and Processing power.
Encryption is not a silver bullet to any and all security problems, it just mitigates some of the risk. If they cant crack the encryption within 20 years then most of the info would be useless by then. If they can do it in 3 months then its a problem...
WTB a new teeter-totter, the one the US has right now isnt checking or balancing properly!
I'm all for the chinese stealing Disneyland too. They probably make 90% of the merchandise sold at the real versions why should they have to go halfway around the world to enjoy themselves.
Of course I'm canadian so if I feel the need to burn a CD I've more than paid my share in levy's on my DVD-RW's that I've burned Linux distros on to cover the cost of a dozen or so CDs. Of course I've never burned a CD for my own use before so I'm out $23-25 dollars thats likely being used by canadian versions of the RIAA/MPAA to lobby for more DMCA-like laws up north. *sigh*
It is not, there is always options that may or may not be present in the real world. 1) Log off 2) Contact the admin and report the incident (probably considered sexual harassment not 'rape') 3) Boot them (if you own the system and/or land in the case of SL) 4) Ignore them (most places have built in ignore/ban features to filter unwanted people) The only way to be a victim is to let yourself be victimized.
Who would want to put 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 into their hardware or software? :)
There is a difference between what you do in your private life and what you do in your public/professional life.
Myself, I keep that annoying little nagware stuff on my computer at home because the prices for them are ridiculous. $30 for WinZip or WinRAR? GTFO.
In your private life you are only beholden to one person, yourself. If you screw up then its your ass in the fryer. In your public/professional life you are beholden to the company and the owner as well as all sorts of legal regulations and such. If you screw up then its both your ass and the company's ass in the fryer.
While I might download some music or a few episodes of XYZ show on the internet at home. I would not do such at the office. I might even pirate a game or two to try it out before buying it. I might do such at home so I can evaluate a software package at home so that I'm able to make an informed decision at the office but usually I just delete whatever because its crap. Needless to say as the head of IT in your department or whatever you have the responsibility to guard both your ass as well as the company's ass. By getting liscenses (bleh I dont like paying M$) and/or offering up open source alternatives (Yay, Open Office!) you are not only saving your own ass, you are saving the ass of the company as well. Just like others have said, if you put in pirated software and some disgruntled employee decides to cash in on a $1000 bonus for tipping off the BSA you are the one that is screwed.