Interoperability is king. I don't care how awesome your new application is, if I can't get my data into it and out of it, it's worthless to me. I've been down this road. If I have to start a massive project just to start using your application, or plan for a massive one to stop using it, that's a cost to me... a big one. And if my people have to go to training just to be able to use it because you didn't want to bother meeting a standard... or I have to hire people strait out of college? Again, that's a huge cost. If your application is 10% slower because of interoperability, even that's inconsequential... I can order server cores off the internet, it's not that big of a deal. Got an idea for a new feature? Great! But if you can't get that feature to work inside the existing standard, you don't have a new feature. There's likely a reason it's not allowed.
They didn't gain much revenue from anything. Peering isn't something any ISP makes much profit on. Verizon has its own peering provider. It, of course, gets the best deal from that provider. Everyone else in the world that wants large bandwidth access to their network knows this and uses that peering provider. ATT has their own, Comcast, everyone. They do this on purpose because a 3rd party can just sit there an leach money from them if they have to use that. ATT and Verizon will both have peers with each other. Charge each other the same rate, and viola, it's a recipricol agreement. No-one loses any money. This is the way it works. Netflix tried to use their large bandwidth and notoriety to change that. They failed.
The price difference to Netflix would probably be laughable to you if you saw it. A few hundred dollars a month at most. These large peering agreements are in the thousands of a dollars. I've seen them, most companies don't even blink at the price difference between providers. Now maybe Verizon jacked up the price to Netflix, I wouldn't know. But given how vocal Netflix has been about the whole deal I'm pretty sure they'd have mentioned that had it been ridiculous. Netflix tried to change how the money flowed. This could have fragmented the internet into "those willing to pay" and "Those who aren't" I find it hilarious that it's been portrayed as the polar opposite. These ISPs really need to work on their PR.
It's hilarious that no-one understands how this works. This is proof positive that this has nothing to do with net-neutrality.
Netflix chose a peer that was expensive for Verizon but cheep for Netflix. Verizon said No... Netflix made this big stink about net neutrality. Verizon said no, we have our own peering, hook up to that. Why on earth would Verizon pay a 3rd party for Netflixes interconnect?!?! Netflix then moves the interconnect to Verizon... Of course the problem is solved!...and for those of you wondering... these interconnect prices are virtually free on the scale Verizon and Netflix are working at. This entire thing has been a tempest in a teapot. This was about who had control over the interconnects. None of them gave a crap about the pittance it currently cost. The problem was that Netflix was trying to change the status quo and gain control over part of the network.
If 4 attempts = account lockout. Even if your password is only 1 alphanumeric character, there are 52 possible answers (upper and lower case) So your probobility on 1 attempt is 0.019 (1.9%) Given 4 attempts, if my binomial equations correct (and its been years since I've done this so...) your chances of guessing a 1 character password before account lockout is 7% That's ONE character.
Yes, if there is no brute force protection... ok, you need a long complex password. And I'd not recommend a single character password. The fact of the matter is the attacker could try it once a week until they got it. But by the time you get to a 6+ character password? There's no way... Again, this assumes you have basic forms of security on your site. If you're relying on the password alone to protect you then you have bigger problems than the length of peoples passwords. (i.e. if someone can try and brute force 10,000 accounts a minute and you wont notice they'll eventually get one by shear luck.)
Because it's already too late. Even if we stopped CO2 production entirely, today, all of this stuff would still happen. The CO2 we're producing today is just compounding the problem for our grand children. Short of discovering cold fusion tomorrow and mass producing small devices with unlimited power that could change the CO2 back into a solid, we're screwed.
It has to be mentioned.... So Netflix can charge more for higher bandwidth services but ISPs cannot? Shouldn't Netflix stream the movie, in the format I want, for the same price?
Whatever the X-37B does, it seems to do it well. The USAF sends them up into space, they stay up for months or years, they do whatever they do, and they come home.
Space is the place - for robots.
It's a weapons platform and it's likely out of ammo. Think of all the drone strikes we've had as of late... now imagine if the drone was at just a tad higher altitude and had the optics of a military spy satellite... how handy would that be? and you think they don't have one? An orbital sniper rifle would be a hell of a thing.
Bullshit... this guy is working in some fantasy world separated from reality. Anecdotal example: I used to work for AT&T back in the 90s. They wanted to improve the security of an application so they changed the password requirements and had it require a 30 character pass phrase that included capitals, lower case, numbers, special symbols, no numbers could repeat, etc... The result? Everyone had a posit note with their password stuck to their monitor within a week.
All of your security measures are meaningless if no-one follows them. There was no way in hell we were going to remember our 30 character password without writing it down. Password safe huh? And how do I log onto the computer in the first place? Or remember the password for the password safe? I need 2 passwords just to get into the safe! I have to pick a less secure password to protect the thing I keep all my passwords in?!?!
6 to 8 characters make us change it every 90 days Special characters don't matter 4 attempt lockout done
If they can guess your password in 4 attempts, they know your god damned password.
They aren't. You're confusing particles with energy. The particle and anti-particle pair have a net energy of 0. Any one of the 2 particles would have a certain amount of energy and if you're looking at that one particle, the other, because of quantum mechanics, must have negative energy. A strange concept but it's one of those crazy quantum mechanical things that only work if you're not looking directly at it.
So when the pair pops into existence, and one particle is born inside the event horizon... the other particle can be observed and interact with the universe. Because of this, it must have energy... and because it has energy, it's pair inside the Event Horizon must have negative energy. The particle that escaped, be it matter or anti-matter has energy, so therefor it's unlucky partner must have had negative energy. The net effect is the blackhole loses energy which is given off by these particles.
The theory is, that the trapped particle falls in... and (basically) annihilates its opposite inside the hole. You have to remember that because it's considered to be a singularity it's properties are measured as a "Whole" meaning that all of the properties of everything past the event horizon are combined. The singularity has 1 mass, 1 angular momentum. 1 charge, etc... Once you're past the event horizon you cannot separate the parts from the whole any longer.
I never did get this... Hawking radiation doesn't "Escape" a black hole. In empty space, there is a constant seething foam of particle-antiparticle pairs that get created all the time. Normally these pairs immediately collide with one another, or their neighbors, and obliterate each other so they are mostly undetectable. With a blackhole you have an event horizon. One side of which is inescapable, the other side is escapable. It stands to reason, that along this line these particle-antiparticle pairs would get created with one inside the horizon and the other outside of it. Resulting in a net increase in the number of particles created. Nothing "Escaped" at all.
They did run an amp meter on it. Also, they know the power supply he was using and it's standard. They were able to measure all inputs and outputs. It put out more than it took in, by a lot. More than could be accounted for given its mass.
I'm not saying this is real... but when they really do figure out how he tricked them it's going to be really clever I bet.
No, it would be more like you put the dollar into a billfold, then took out 10... put one back in, got another 10 out... and then did this for weeks. At some point you have to think to yourself "Ok, either this really is a magic billfold, or he is very good packing dollars into wallets.
Everyone that says they have a box that makes energy from nothing, I say, phase match your box to the line current from the local utility, roll your meter backwards, and cash the ensuing checks. Then talk to me.
But that's the thing. That sort of stunt would be chump change compared to inventing cold fusion. If the inventor really has figured something out, and I'll grant you that's unlikely, it would behoove him to keep a tight lid on it until he has pretty much the entire eastern seaboards worth of lawyers under his belt. History is littered with scientists and inventors that have ended up living in a gutter after discovering some of the most life altering technologies. If he really does have something, he'll be the target of every shifty technology company on the planet, who will steal it, and will patent it on their own.
The salary of a tech worker strait out of community college is $30k around here. You can make that much at Walmart, easilly. Why on earth would someone go into a profession that requires difficult classes and pays shit? You can get a nursing degree with a hell of a lot less effort and they start at $45k, the demand for workers is huge and there's no possible way you'd ever get outsourced.
The name of the game is, “Monopoly.” It changes many things, regulatorily speaking.
There's that word again. I don't think it means what you think it means. There are virtually no ISPs in this country that have a monopoly over internet delivery. Cellular made sure of that.
I'm all for the leaks when it concerns stuff the NSA does against civilians. But against foreign governments? The point of the NSA is to do that sort of thing. And anyone that thinks these other governments aren't doing the same thing back are kidding themselves. The US is just walking around with their fly down until they get Snowden home. And he can be brought back at any time for the low low price of just pardoning him. Do that, admit fault, have a national/international discussion about it, and then as part of that he stops.
Because 2 wrongs make a right? Is that how it goes?
We're talking about deliberate sabotage of our allies telecommunications networks. It'd be one thing if this were with countries we're at war with, but it's not.
But that's just it. If he has the right to refuse to accept users that want to torrent, why can't Comcast? You ARE violating their TOS after all... Net Neutrality applies to us all.
The reason, and I think they should just flat out say it because I think it's valid:
If they allow this guy to get it, then hundreds of thousands of other people will request it as well. They will need to build departments, processes, training, security procedures and create for themselves and very expensive endless quagmire of bureaucracy. Even if he offers to pay for it, someone will eventually sue, somewhere in the world and get it legally defined as a "Right" so then no-one will have to pay. It's Pandoras box, they know it, he knows it, and they are certainly not going to hand him the key.
Corporations are their own worst enemies at times. Just explain this and explain "We don't want to give it to the government either!! But they're making us!" If they're ordered by a court to release the information, they the court has to deal with most of the legal pitfalls. If the wrong information gets into the wrong hands, that's the courts fault. There's no way they are going to volunteer this.
When I did the endurance stuff, I replaced my differential with a one-way diff. That way I could coast. It really depended on the track, but I had so much damned torqe I'd basically power out of the turn and then coast into the next. If it was a very long oval, this was less useful... but the idea was fresh when I tried it and people couldn't believe how few battery changes I'd have to make.
This, of course meant I couldn't break (and for those of you not into the sport, we had no reverse at all) so a steering mistake on my part would be a very bad thing indeed.
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Interoperability is king.
I don't care how awesome your new application is, if I can't get my data into it and out of it, it's worthless to me. I've been down this road. If I have to start a massive project just to start using your application, or plan for a massive one to stop using it, that's a cost to me... a big one. And if my people have to go to training just to be able to use it because you didn't want to bother meeting a standard... or I have to hire people strait out of college? Again, that's a huge cost. If your application is 10% slower because of interoperability, even that's inconsequential... I can order server cores off the internet, it's not that big of a deal. Got an idea for a new feature? Great! But if you can't get that feature to work inside the existing standard, you don't have a new feature. There's likely a reason it's not allowed.
They didn't gain much revenue from anything. Peering isn't something any ISP makes much profit on.
Verizon has its own peering provider. It, of course, gets the best deal from that provider. Everyone else in the world that wants large bandwidth access to their network knows this and uses that peering provider. ATT has their own, Comcast, everyone. They do this on purpose because a 3rd party can just sit there an leach money from them if they have to use that. ATT and Verizon will both have peers with each other. Charge each other the same rate, and viola, it's a recipricol agreement. No-one loses any money. This is the way it works. Netflix tried to use their large bandwidth and notoriety to change that. They failed.
The price difference to Netflix would probably be laughable to you if you saw it. A few hundred dollars a month at most. These large peering agreements are in the thousands of a dollars. I've seen them, most companies don't even blink at the price difference between providers. Now maybe Verizon jacked up the price to Netflix, I wouldn't know. But given how vocal Netflix has been about the whole deal I'm pretty sure they'd have mentioned that had it been ridiculous. Netflix tried to change how the money flowed. This could have fragmented the internet into "those willing to pay" and "Those who aren't" I find it hilarious that it's been portrayed as the polar opposite. These ISPs really need to work on their PR.
It's hilarious that no-one understands how this works. This is proof positive that this has nothing to do with net-neutrality.
Netflix chose a peer that was expensive for Verizon but cheep for Netflix. ...and for those of you wondering... these interconnect prices are virtually free on the scale Verizon and Netflix are working at. This entire thing has been a tempest in a teapot. This was about who had control over the interconnects. None of them gave a crap about the pittance it currently cost. The problem was that Netflix was trying to change the status quo and gain control over part of the network.
Verizon said No... Netflix made this big stink about net neutrality.
Verizon said no, we have our own peering, hook up to that.
Why on earth would Verizon pay a 3rd party for Netflixes interconnect?!?!
Netflix then moves the interconnect to Verizon... Of course the problem is solved!
No, you're wrong.
If 4 attempts = account lockout.
Even if your password is only 1 alphanumeric character, there are 52 possible answers (upper and lower case)
So your probobility on 1 attempt is 0.019 (1.9%)
Given 4 attempts, if my binomial equations correct (and its been years since I've done this so...) your chances of guessing a 1 character password before account lockout is 7%
That's ONE character.
Yes, if there is no brute force protection... ok, you need a long complex password. And I'd not recommend a single character password. The fact of the matter is the attacker could try it once a week until they got it. But by the time you get to a 6+ character password? There's no way... Again, this assumes you have basic forms of security on your site. If you're relying on the password alone to protect you then you have bigger problems than the length of peoples passwords. (i.e. if someone can try and brute force 10,000 accounts a minute and you wont notice they'll eventually get one by shear luck.)
So, for those of you that didn't follow the link, the summary is a flat out lie:
...when the costs of ‘external’ factors like air quality, human toxicity and climate change are taken into account...
Convenient how they left that part of the sentence out ain't it?
Because it's already too late. Even if we stopped CO2 production entirely, today, all of this stuff would still happen. The CO2 we're producing today is just compounding the problem for our grand children. Short of discovering cold fusion tomorrow and mass producing small devices with unlimited power that could change the CO2 back into a solid, we're screwed.
It has to be mentioned....
So Netflix can charge more for higher bandwidth services but ISPs cannot?
Shouldn't Netflix stream the movie, in the format I want, for the same price?
Their ISP and storage costs will increase to handle the new format and you have to pay for that somehow.
At least they have 4k content.
Storage space is nothing. You can fit damn near every movie created in 4k on less than a $1000 worth of hardrives off amazons.
Whatever the X-37B does, it seems to do it well. The USAF sends them up into space, they stay up for months or years, they do whatever they do, and they come home.
Space is the place - for robots.
It's a weapons platform and it's likely out of ammo.
Think of all the drone strikes we've had as of late... now imagine if the drone was at just a tad higher altitude and had the optics of a military spy satellite... how handy would that be? and you think they don't have one? An orbital sniper rifle would be a hell of a thing.
Bullshit... this guy is working in some fantasy world separated from reality.
Anecdotal example: I used to work for AT&T back in the 90s. They wanted to improve the security of an application so they changed the password requirements and had it require a 30 character pass phrase that included capitals, lower case, numbers, special symbols, no numbers could repeat, etc... The result? Everyone had a posit note with their password stuck to their monitor within a week.
All of your security measures are meaningless if no-one follows them. There was no way in hell we were going to remember our 30 character password without writing it down.
Password safe huh? And how do I log onto the computer in the first place? Or remember the password for the password safe? I need 2 passwords just to get into the safe! I have to pick a less secure password to protect the thing I keep all my passwords in?!?!
6 to 8 characters
make us change it every 90 days
Special characters don't matter
4 attempt lockout
done
If they can guess your password in 4 attempts, they know your god damned password.
They aren't. You're confusing particles with energy. The particle and anti-particle pair have a net energy of 0. Any one of the 2 particles would have a certain amount of energy and if you're looking at that one particle, the other, because of quantum mechanics, must have negative energy. A strange concept but it's one of those crazy quantum mechanical things that only work if you're not looking directly at it.
So when the pair pops into existence, and one particle is born inside the event horizon... the other particle can be observed and interact with the universe. Because of this, it must have energy... and because it has energy, it's pair inside the Event Horizon must have negative energy. The particle that escaped, be it matter or anti-matter has energy, so therefor it's unlucky partner must have had negative energy. The net effect is the blackhole loses energy which is given off by these particles.
The theory is, that the trapped particle falls in... and (basically) annihilates its opposite inside the hole. You have to remember that because it's considered to be a singularity it's properties are measured as a "Whole" meaning that all of the properties of everything past the event horizon are combined. The singularity has 1 mass, 1 angular momentum. 1 charge, etc... Once you're past the event horizon you cannot separate the parts from the whole any longer.
I never did get this... Hawking radiation doesn't "Escape" a black hole. In empty space, there is a constant seething foam of particle-antiparticle pairs that get created all the time. Normally these pairs immediately collide with one another, or their neighbors, and obliterate each other so they are mostly undetectable. With a blackhole you have an event horizon. One side of which is inescapable, the other side is escapable. It stands to reason, that along this line these particle-antiparticle pairs would get created with one inside the horizon and the other outside of it. Resulting in a net increase in the number of particles created. Nothing "Escaped" at all.
They did run an amp meter on it. Also, they know the power supply he was using and it's standard. They were able to measure all inputs and outputs. It put out more than it took in, by a lot. More than could be accounted for given its mass.
I'm not saying this is real... but when they really do figure out how he tricked them it's going to be really clever I bet.
No, it would be more like you put the dollar into a billfold, then took out 10... put one back in, got another 10 out... and then did this for weeks. At some point you have to think to yourself "Ok, either this really is a magic billfold, or he is very good packing dollars into wallets.
Everyone that says they have a box that makes energy from nothing, I say, phase match your box to the line current from the local utility, roll your meter backwards, and cash the ensuing checks. Then talk to me.
But that's the thing. That sort of stunt would be chump change compared to inventing cold fusion. If the inventor really has figured something out, and I'll grant you that's unlikely, it would behoove him to keep a tight lid on it until he has pretty much the entire eastern seaboards worth of lawyers under his belt. History is littered with scientists and inventors that have ended up living in a gutter after discovering some of the most life altering technologies. If he really does have something, he'll be the target of every shifty technology company on the planet, who will steal it, and will patent it on their own.
Within 8 weeks ... saw a complete resolution of diarrhea after consuming 30 or 60 of the feces-filled capsules.
Um... that's an improvement? That's like advertizing "We found a new cure for hemorrhoids! It takes 2 months and involves a soldering iron!"
The answer is simple: Pay more.
The salary of a tech worker strait out of community college is $30k around here. You can make that much at Walmart, easilly. Why on earth would someone go into a profession that requires difficult classes and pays shit? You can get a nursing degree with a hell of a lot less effort and they start at $45k, the demand for workers is huge and there's no possible way you'd ever get outsourced.
No, you just can't read:
$50,000 Synchronoss,
$15,000 Datascension
$15,000 Pericom,
$15,000 in RF Micro Devices
That's closer to $100k.
The name of the game is, “Monopoly.” It changes many things, regulatorily speaking.
There's that word again. I don't think it means what you think it means. There are virtually no ISPs in this country that have a monopoly over internet delivery. Cellular made sure of that.
... so he'll not feel inspired to keep leaking.
I'm all for the leaks when it concerns stuff the NSA does against civilians. But against foreign governments? The point of the NSA is to do that sort of thing. And anyone that thinks these other governments aren't doing the same thing back are kidding themselves. The US is just walking around with their fly down until they get Snowden home. And he can be brought back at any time for the low low price of just pardoning him. Do that, admit fault, have a national/international discussion about it, and then as part of that he stops.
Because 2 wrongs make a right? Is that how it goes?
We're talking about deliberate sabotage of our allies telecommunications networks. It'd be one thing if this were with countries we're at war with, but it's not.
It's the Commander Keen MMO
I'm not impressed
But that's just it. If he has the right to refuse to accept users that want to torrent, why can't Comcast? You ARE violating their TOS after all... Net Neutrality applies to us all.
The reason, and I think they should just flat out say it because I think it's valid:
If they allow this guy to get it, then hundreds of thousands of other people will request it as well. They will need to build departments, processes, training, security procedures and create for themselves and very expensive endless quagmire of bureaucracy. Even if he offers to pay for it, someone will eventually sue, somewhere in the world and get it legally defined as a "Right" so then no-one will have to pay. It's Pandoras box, they know it, he knows it, and they are certainly not going to hand him the key.
Corporations are their own worst enemies at times. Just explain this and explain "We don't want to give it to the government either!! But they're making us!" If they're ordered by a court to release the information, they the court has to deal with most of the legal pitfalls. If the wrong information gets into the wrong hands, that's the courts fault. There's no way they are going to volunteer this.
When I did the endurance stuff, I replaced my differential with a one-way diff. That way I could coast. It really depended on the track, but I had so much damned torqe I'd basically power out of the turn and then coast into the next. If it was a very long oval, this was less useful... but the idea was fresh when I tried it and people couldn't believe how few battery changes I'd have to make.
This, of course meant I couldn't break (and for those of you not into the sport, we had no reverse at all) so a steering mistake on my part would be a very bad thing indeed.