I can't speak for Zopa, but I've been looking into Prosper. It's quite interesting actually.
There are indeed credit checks. Users have their credit scores checked, and their 'ebay applications' show their rating, broken down into AA, A, B, C, etc. Users also attach checking/savings account when they create their accounts, and monthly collections are automatic. Obviously that doesn't preclude the possibility of defaulting on the loans, but it helps.
Also, there are affiliated collection agencies for defaulted loans. Just as banks outsource collections to agencies, so can you. I've actually recently signed up as a lender, and will be trying things out with a small amount of money in the next week or so.
For some industries (like the financial industry), that already is the law - and has been for some time. Most of the major Wall Street firms got hit with fines over exactly that a couple of years ago.
And incidentally, the number of years is '7'. That's a lot of data.
I don't think that a 3rd party firmware image counts as 'supported' - it sounds much more like a 'hack'. I'd love to hear the tech support call to Apple when they ask you for your firmware version...
I'm not saying that rockbox is a bad thing, it's just not something for Joe Consumer.
I haven't RTF, but I heard the NPR report on the way in this morning. They actually addressed abortions, still borns, etc. None of that seems to matter in this finding, merely conception (and probably enough development for the zygote to become a fetus so that there is blood, but I don't think that was said explicitly.)
There are usually carrots in such contracts. For example, bonuses paid out as options which vest over time usually have non-compete clauses attached such that if you work for a competitor, you lose your options. Be a good boy and don't work for the competition, you get to keep your bonus after you leave the company.
Chances are, child porn would violate the Terms of Service to begin with. They'd take it down quickly enough.
We're talking about things which are legal in the country they host from, the USA. I imagine that warez, mp3s, etc. would also violate the ToS and would be removed as content.
Check out http://reddit.com./ At least, once it isn't broken. It's a news aggragation site per slashdot/digg, but incorporates some of what you are looking for.
Current mayor of NYC. He completely paid for his campaigns out of his own pocket from money he made being the king of market data for wall street. Bloomberg is one of the biggest names in the financial world.
It certainly is a common euphemism where I work. It usually happens when people leave suddenly with no warning and nothing lined up for what they are doing next. You may draw your own conclusions.
Amen. I used to work at a university in an IT roll. I now work at a Fortune 500. One job involved the most backstabbing, manipulative, unwholesome environment you could imagine; the other is the Fortune 500 company.
I'm sure that somewhere out there, there exists good university environments. But I have said for years that nothing should turn anyone off of school more than working at a university.
I am also a network engineer, and in fairness to the original poster NAT can help prevent the propogation of worms and the like. If you have a client with a non-routable address (e.g., 192.168.1.1) that gets source translated on egress only, you have essentially created a one way channel for traffic - outbound. If you have a full bi-directional NAT set up where the outside world can reach your hidden IP address via a public IP, NAT buys you nothing (security wise).
NAT is no replacement for a firewall, but used in conjunction with them it can add an extra layer of protection. I wouldn't dream of using NAT by itself as 'security', but NAT can certainly be part of a defence in depth security strategy.
That depends on the country. The UK uses co.uk, Australia uses com.au. Canada frequently just uses.ca without level 2 names (co, com, etc.) More reasons why 'simply get rid of the TLDs' is not so simple.
DNS and routing really have very little to do with each other.
Most websites of any size whatsoever not only have multiple IP addresses assigned to the site (DNS), but also multiple links to the internet across carriers (routing). A problem in either area can cause diruption to clients, but that doesn't make them the same system.
The link you provided (minus the marketing noise) sounds like a proximity based DNS solution...also not revolutionary. Many site-to-site load balancing solutions use response time for DNS queries to determine the best IP address to return. In the event of fragmentation like happened between L3 and Cogent, if only one DNS server was avaiable on the isolated cloud (Cogent), the IP returned should be a web server on the same network. Voila, no customer disruption.
In short, yes it is possible to use DNS to work around some routing issues. It's also possible to use routing to work around some DNS issues. (example: cached DNS entries leading to a dead site, but natting the traffic to a real server and then routing the traffic accordingly). In reality though, they are separate systems. There already is a need for 'multiple routing paths', at least for any web site which wants to come close to 99.999% availability.
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They are part of the IANA reserved IP blocks. There are many of them. Currently they shouldn't be used anywhere, but no future guarantees.
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Reference:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-spac
Why yes, yes I can.
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
I can't speak for Zopa, but I've been looking into Prosper. It's quite interesting actually.
There are indeed credit checks. Users have their credit scores checked, and their 'ebay applications' show their rating, broken down into AA, A, B, C, etc. Users also attach checking/savings account when they create their accounts, and monthly collections are automatic. Obviously that doesn't preclude the possibility of defaulting on the loans, but it helps.
Also, there are affiliated collection agencies for defaulted loans. Just as banks outsource collections to agencies, so can you. I've actually recently signed up as a lender, and will be trying things out with a small amount of money in the next week or so.
For some industries (like the financial industry), that already is the law - and has been for some time. Most of the major Wall Street firms got hit with fines over exactly that a couple of years ago.
And incidentally, the number of years is '7'. That's a lot of data.
For those of you interested, there is a grass roots organization called the Poker Players Alliance which is attempting to lobby against this bill.
More information at http://www.pokerplayersalliance.org/press.html
Full Tilt Poker now has a full Mac client. My wife and I both use it frequently, it works fine.
There's a handy "Tape Archive" utility for that. It's called 'tar'. Maybe you've heard of it.
I don't think that a 3rd party firmware image counts as 'supported' - it sounds much more like a 'hack'. I'd love to hear the tech support call to Apple when they ask you for your firmware version...
I'm not saying that rockbox is a bad thing, it's just not something for Joe Consumer.
I haven't RTF, but I heard the NPR report on the way in this morning. They actually addressed abortions, still borns, etc. None of that seems to matter in this finding, merely conception (and probably enough development for the zygote to become a fetus so that there is blood, but I don't think that was said explicitly.)
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Be afraid. Be very afraid.
There are usually carrots in such contracts. For example, bonuses paid out as options which vest over time usually have non-compete clauses attached such that if you work for a competitor, you lose your options. Be a good boy and don't work for the competition, you get to keep your bonus after you leave the company.
Chances are, child porn would violate the Terms of Service to begin with. They'd take it down quickly enough.
We're talking about things which are legal in the country they host from, the USA. I imagine that warez, mp3s, etc. would also violate the ToS and would be removed as content.
Clearly you aren't from NYC. http://mta.info/ is the home page for the Metropolitan Transit Authority, the admins of the subway/bus system.
Check out http://reddit.com./ At least, once it isn't broken. It's a news aggragation site per slashdot/digg, but incorporates some of what you are looking for.
Current mayor of NYC. He completely paid for his campaigns out of his own pocket from money he made being the king of market data for wall street. Bloomberg is one of the biggest names in the financial world.
It certainly is a common euphemism where I work. It usually happens when people leave suddenly with no warning and nothing lined up for what they are doing next. You may draw your own conclusions.
Amen. I used to work at a university in an IT roll. I now work at a Fortune 500. One job involved the most backstabbing, manipulative, unwholesome environment you could imagine; the other is the Fortune 500 company.
I'm sure that somewhere out there, there exists good university environments. But I have said for years that nothing should turn anyone off of school more than working at a university.
Damn, and I blew all my mod points earlier today. Funniest thing I've read today. :-)
I believe the LGPL requires acknowledgement to the copyright holders included along with the distribution. Sony didn't include those notices.
At least the department store removes the tag after you buy it.
I am also a network engineer, and in fairness to the original poster NAT can help prevent the propogation of worms and the like. If you have a client with a non-routable address (e.g., 192.168.1.1) that gets source translated on egress only, you have essentially created a one way channel for traffic - outbound. If you have a full bi-directional NAT set up where the outside world can reach your hidden IP address via a public IP, NAT buys you nothing (security wise).
NAT is no replacement for a firewall, but used in conjunction with them it can add an extra layer of protection. I wouldn't dream of using NAT by itself as 'security', but NAT can certainly be part of a defence in depth security strategy.
That depends on the country. The UK uses co.uk, Australia uses com.au. Canada frequently just uses .ca without level 2 names (co, com, etc.) More reasons why 'simply get rid of the TLDs' is not so simple.
The term predates computers. In the original usage, any sort of mechanical device or system could have bugs.
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http://www.silicon.com/software/webservices/0,390
DNS and routing really have very little to do with each other.
Most websites of any size whatsoever not only have multiple IP addresses assigned to the site (DNS), but also multiple links to the internet across carriers (routing). A problem in either area can cause diruption to clients, but that doesn't make them the same system.
The link you provided (minus the marketing noise) sounds like a proximity based DNS solution...also not revolutionary. Many site-to-site load balancing solutions use response time for DNS queries to determine the best IP address to return. In the event of fragmentation like happened between L3 and Cogent, if only one DNS server was avaiable on the isolated cloud (Cogent), the IP returned should be a web server on the same network. Voila, no customer disruption.
In short, yes it is possible to use DNS to work around some routing issues. It's also possible to use routing to work around some DNS issues. (example: cached DNS entries leading to a dead site, but natting the traffic to a real server and then routing the traffic accordingly). In reality though, they are separate systems. There already is a need for 'multiple routing paths', at least for any web site which wants to come close to 99.999% availability.
Or this one...
http://simulator.investopedia.com/