Stupid idea if you ask me. Instead of apps sleeping (also not using power - they're not actually running) and being woken up by the OS when an event happens you've got a huge-ass server somewhere sending out *every* event that *every* iphone in the world wants to listen for - potentially billions. Single point of failure - that server goes out and all iphone notification services fail. Not to mention it'd have to be huge and cost a fortune to run (bandwidth costs alone would be nightmarish)... it just doesn't scale economically.
It probably sounded good to marketing but then did MobileMe (and they can't even keep that stable).
Manual reregistration is once a year, which is a pain in the neck. If you can handle that it's OK. Oh and you have to disable the sound otherwise it screams 'VIRUS DATABASE HAS BEEN UPDATED!!' at full volume about twice a day (I *really* wish they'd give an option to just switch that off and leave the other sounds on).
I believe ipv6-NAT can be configured to do that (amongst other scenarios).. my Cisco has it but I've never bothered enabling it.
The problem is the scenario you describe is a bit useless. An ipv4 device can't contact an ipv6 device anyway, as it doesn't support the address format. So all the websites would have to advertise ipv4 addresses, allow connection from ipv6 somehow, reply over ipv6, that then gets translated to ipv4. Way overcomplex to achieve precisely nothing.
1. Get an ISP that's even heard of ipv6, let alone is prepared to sell you addresses. 2. Get a router that supports ipv6. Good luck with that unless you're prepared to go Cisco.
Except in general they don't, or it's poorly implemented.
The iphone is strictly an ipv4 device. Symbian has ipv6, but it doesn't understand router advertisements - it requires that you provide the address via dhcpv6 and even then only by a specific mechanism (I've never managed to get dhcp6d to successfully give it an IP - it responds but requests a response type that isn't documented anywhre I can find).
No it doesn't work like that. Verisign issue a certificate that is signed with their private key. Their public key ships with the browser as 'trusted' so anything that verisign signs is automatically trusted in the same way.
The *only* thing a verisign certificate says is that the certificate owner paid verisign to sign it. It says absolutely nothing about the site itself. Phishing sites have used signed certificates as well.
No they don't. We have a code signing cert. I got it by email - I'm not the owner of the company or anything.. I just looked up the company reg. number and sent them the registered address and they replied with the link to the certificate the same day.
I could have been *anyone* - there was absolutely no real verification.. I literally googled all the information as it was quicker than asking my boss. For this they wanted $200.
What about the backlash to the makers of the affected medical equipment? That's where any blame should lie.
Any piece of life saving equipment that can be screwed up by a low power radio transmission is not fit for purpose. These things are supposed to be built to high standards and have near zero failure rates.
And the paranoids are after us all. TFA doesn't paint this as A Big Deal. It's just another thing to watch for. That's why hospitals typically don't allow cell phones in patient critical areas (and then wildly overestimate the danger potential and try to ban them everywhere which of course doesn't work).
In the UK at least the reason for the blanket ban is so they can push their expensive 'Patientline' phones. It's rigidly enforced.. they'll physically throw you out if they see a mobile phone near a ward... critical area or not.
They still do - try going to an ATM at around 7-8am.. they're all down for about 20 minutes a day (It's really annoying in fact if you want money before going into work and pick the wrong moment, as every bank does it at the same time).
If you did that at a bank you'd (a) have to be the system admin as I bet there's no more than one or two people in the entire company would have that kind of access, and (b) henceforth be unemployable, (c) lose everything as the lawyers took it off you, and (d) probably be facing criminal damage charges.
This is china we're talking about here. You can bet that the chinese government has control over the internet, just like it has control over everything else.
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Stupid idea if you ask me. Instead of apps sleeping (also not using power - they're not actually running) and being woken up by the OS when an event happens you've got a huge-ass server somewhere sending out *every* event that *every* iphone in the world wants to listen for - potentially billions. Single point of failure - that server goes out and all iphone notification services fail. Not to mention it'd have to be huge and cost a fortune to run (bandwidth costs alone would be nightmarish) ... it just doesn't scale economically.
It probably sounded good to marketing but then did MobileMe (and they can't even keep that stable).
Troll? Mods with a sense of humour failure again...
Manual reregistration is once a year, which is a pain in the neck. If you can handle that it's OK. Oh and you have to disable the sound otherwise it screams 'VIRUS DATABASE HAS BEEN UPDATED!!' at full volume about twice a day (I *really* wish they'd give an option to just switch that off and leave the other sounds on).
Surely all the would-be hacker has to do is buy one of these devices for himself... then it's no more secure than a password.
Ability to pass ipv6 == upgrade the backbone router software so it'll pass the packets.
Says nothing about switching. My wifi device can pass ipv6, but it isn't ipv6 capable - it's just a dumb router that passes any crap you throw at it.
I believe ipv6-NAT can be configured to do that (amongst other scenarios).. my Cisco has it but I've never bothered enabling it.
The problem is the scenario you describe is a bit useless. An ipv4 device can't contact an ipv6 device anyway, as it doesn't support the address format. So all the websites would have to advertise ipv4 addresses, allow connection from ipv6 somehow, reply over ipv6, that then gets translated to ipv4. Way overcomplex to achieve precisely nothing.
Whoopee 6 whole providers worldwide. ipv6 is good to go guys....
Useless. It's one page - all the links go back to www.google.com. google don't index ipv6 anyway, so there's no point.
So you still need ipv6->ipv4 gateways, or maybe just forget about the ipv6.
OK now you're down to:
1. Get an ISP that's even heard of ipv6, let alone is prepared to sell you addresses.
2. Get a router that supports ipv6. Good luck with that unless you're prepared to go Cisco.
Crap. I meant disable ipv4.
Stupid Slashdot. Let me f...ing post dammit!
Or even better.. disable ipv6 on Vista and try to log onto your domain :p
Win28k allegedly supports AD over IPV6 but the average company is looking at years before that's deployed.
Except in general they don't, or it's poorly implemented.
The iphone is strictly an ipv4 device. Symbian has ipv6, but it doesn't understand router advertisements - it requires that you provide the address via dhcpv6 and even then only by a specific mechanism (I've never managed to get dhcp6d to successfully give it an IP - it responds but requests a response type that isn't documented anywhre I can find).
I doubt the sea level change would be all that great. It depends whether the melting ice was on water on land - TFS implies it's on water.
Logicaly frozen ice and melted ice must have the same displacement (same mass, different density) so the sea level will not rise if an iceberg melts.
No it doesn't work like that. Verisign issue a certificate that is signed with their private key. Their public key ships with the browser as 'trusted' so anything that verisign signs is automatically trusted in the same way.
The *only* thing a verisign certificate says is that the certificate owner paid verisign to sign it. It says absolutely nothing about the site itself. Phishing sites have used signed certificates as well.
No they don't. We have a code signing cert. I got it by email - I'm not the owner of the company or anything.. I just looked up the company reg. number and sent them the registered address and they replied with the link to the certificate the same day.
I could have been *anyone* - there was absolutely no real verification.. I literally googled all the information as it was quicker than asking my boss. For this they wanted $200.
What about the backlash to the makers of the affected medical equipment? That's where any blame should lie.
Any piece of life saving equipment that can be screwed up by a low power radio transmission is not fit for purpose. These things are supposed to be built to high standards and have near zero failure rates.
And the paranoids are after us all. TFA doesn't paint this as A Big Deal. It's just another thing to watch for. That's why hospitals typically don't allow cell phones in patient critical areas (and then wildly overestimate the danger potential and try to ban them everywhere which of course doesn't work).
In the UK at least the reason for the blanket ban is so they can push their expensive 'Patientline' phones. It's rigidly enforced.. they'll physically throw you out if they see a mobile phone near a ward... critical area or not.
They still do - try going to an ATM at around 7-8am.. they're all down for about 20 minutes a day (It's really annoying in fact if you want money before going into work and pick the wrong moment, as every bank does it at the same time).
If you did that at a bank you'd (a) have to be the system admin as I bet there's no more than one or two people in the entire company would have that kind of access, and (b) henceforth be unemployable, (c) lose everything as the lawyers took it off you, and (d) probably be facing criminal damage charges.
Seriously, you only have to go to northern sweden/norway to see this in action. You'll find a combination of zombies and nutcases!
OK wise guy... now explain California!
This is china we're talking about here. You can bet that the chinese government has control over the internet, just like it has control over everything else.
Here is a list of the most prolific spammers in the world - aka. the people controlling these bots:
http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/index.lasso
They're mostly american.
If you use GPL code then yes your code must be GPLed to avoid violating the license for the code you use.
You can however use LGPL code, which most libraries are.
How is it a perfectly good product? It relies on illegal copies of software to run.
Irrelevant. If they distribute binaries without providing access to source they violate the GPL. The 'We only do hardware' argument is utterly bogus.
If they shipped copies of Windows on there in violation of the license do you think that Microsoft would accept such an argument? Same thing.