For any device used by the police the manufacturer should have to prove that the device has a failure rate of zero. If the device gives any false positives then how can it be trusted, somebody is going to be convicted who shouldn't have been. Has anybody heard of the story of a speed gun measuring a wall traveling at 40MPH?
I've been using windows live mesh (www.mesh.com) to achieve this.
I have my work machine and my home machine setup to synchronise files. This way I always have two copies of the files on two machines, with a third copy stored online.
My wedding photos might actually be safe now.
We've been trying to recruit for months with no success. While looking for work myself I came across my current company's add on Monster. When I saw the add I realized why we hadn't had any good applicants. Whoever posted the add talked so much about how we interface with the customer and how our standards of excellence are so high, that it left out the important bits i.e. What is the job and how much does it pay. The only bit of the add that discussed anything about the job was a list of buzz words and job skills that seemed to be more beefed out than it should have been. I think we would have had more luck placing an add that simply said "Wanted: Excellent C# programmers for Windows Forms applications. Excellent pay and benefits available"
I agree, the problem is not the amount of bandwidth but the way it is being used.
When IPTV becomes widespread it should be using some kind of multicast technology so that we can remove a lot of repetitive data. Also, file sharing needs to start using a multicast technology to improve speeds and reduce bandwidth. We also need to look at internet wide authentication systems so that emails and other traffic can be verified as coming from a known, trusted source.
On a side note: The other major thing that I see stopping the progression of the internet is broadcast rights. The television and movie industry needs to get together and define world wide broadcasting rights management systems so that a TV station in the US can broadcast to a viewer in the UK. Traditional broadcast mediums need to be forgotten and we need to move forward.
Right now the internet is not evolving through engineering and the end users are being left behind as a consequence.
It would be cool if seach engines could read these watermarks. That kind of information could filter out low qualify versions of a song etc and aid the browser in finding the content they want.
I'd be interested to know what your thoughts are on the future of P2P networks.
I heard one stat a long time ago that P2P's consumed about 20% of internet bandwidth. I dont know how true this is, but I suspect that P2P is a huge amount of bandwidth all the same. Also, I dont know the BitTorrent protocol, I would however guess that the technology is still in its infancy.
How do you see multicast and IPv6 affecting the future of P2P?
I agree with you in the most part, but I'm not sure that I'm 100% behind the comment
The fundamental principle here is that centralising security often reduces security. If all my credit cards shared a PIN number on a centeralized server it could be much longer than 4 digits and hense much more secure. I could probably remember quite a long number (or pass phrase) that identified me where ever I went. The cost of losing this number would of course be much greater to an individual, but credit cards carry insurance. If you loose your credit card you are likely only liable for the first £50. After that the insurance picks up the bill. So instead of looking at this on individual terms I think you need to look at the population as a whole. If you make a system 100 times more difficult to break and you increase the cost of a failure in the system by 10 times, then the system is a success. The insurance doesnt need to pay out as much and the cost saving *should* be passed back to the consumer.
Does anybody really think that there is any economic gain in switching to IpV6?
If there is no gain then why would ISPs switch?
It seems to me that any new protocol should aim to solve some of the bigger problems the internet is facing. My first thoughts would be the amount of bandwidth that is wasted by botnets sending spam and bit torrent clients resending the same information.
Increasing the address space of the protocol is not enough. Give me a good working global multicast system and some way to identify and filter the noise of spam and I could see some economic gain and a reason to switch to a new protocol.
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For any device used by the police the manufacturer should have to prove that the device has a failure rate of zero. If the device gives any false positives then how can it be trusted, somebody is going to be convicted who shouldn't have been. Has anybody heard of the story of a speed gun measuring a wall traveling at 40MPH?
I've been using windows live mesh (www.mesh.com) to achieve this. I have my work machine and my home machine setup to synchronise files. This way I always have two copies of the files on two machines, with a third copy stored online. My wedding photos might actually be safe now.
We've been trying to recruit for months with no success. While looking for work myself I came across my current company's add on Monster. When I saw the add I realized why we hadn't had any good applicants. Whoever posted the add talked so much about how we interface with the customer and how our standards of excellence are so high, that it left out the important bits i.e. What is the job and how much does it pay. The only bit of the add that discussed anything about the job was a list of buzz words and job skills that seemed to be more beefed out than it should have been. I think we would have had more luck placing an add that simply said "Wanted: Excellent C# programmers for Windows Forms applications. Excellent pay and benefits available"
There is another option. Reduced costs. If the cost of making infrastructure upgrades is offset by a reduced running cost then its worth it.
I agree, the problem is not the amount of bandwidth but the way it is being used. When IPTV becomes widespread it should be using some kind of multicast technology so that we can remove a lot of repetitive data. Also, file sharing needs to start using a multicast technology to improve speeds and reduce bandwidth. We also need to look at internet wide authentication systems so that emails and other traffic can be verified as coming from a known, trusted source. On a side note: The other major thing that I see stopping the progression of the internet is broadcast rights. The television and movie industry needs to get together and define world wide broadcasting rights management systems so that a TV station in the US can broadcast to a viewer in the UK. Traditional broadcast mediums need to be forgotten and we need to move forward. Right now the internet is not evolving through engineering and the end users are being left behind as a consequence.
It would be cool if seach engines could read these watermarks. That kind of information could filter out low qualify versions of a song etc and aid the browser in finding the content they want.
I'd be interested to know what your thoughts are on the future of P2P networks. I heard one stat a long time ago that P2P's consumed about 20% of internet bandwidth. I dont know how true this is, but I suspect that P2P is a huge amount of bandwidth all the same. Also, I dont know the BitTorrent protocol, I would however guess that the technology is still in its infancy. How do you see multicast and IPv6 affecting the future of P2P?
Does anybody really think that there is any economic gain in switching to IpV6? If there is no gain then why would ISPs switch? It seems to me that any new protocol should aim to solve some of the bigger problems the internet is facing. My first thoughts would be the amount of bandwidth that is wasted by botnets sending spam and bit torrent clients resending the same information. Increasing the address space of the protocol is not enough. Give me a good working global multicast system and some way to identify and filter the noise of spam and I could see some economic gain and a reason to switch to a new protocol.