Google has the best uptime and the most distributed architecture of any single computer system, unless you consider the internet to be a single entity; it has slightly better reach overall.
All Google is doing is refreshing it's cache before entries expire.
DNS servers can and do return recently expired entries. It may not be to spec, but it fucking works and is right 99% of the time and you'll never know when they're doing it.
Google is doing nothing special by refreshing its cache early.
Fear of pirates sucking up your bandwidth, and getting all your apps for free.
Fear of zealots circumventing traditional pay schemes by getting voice, data, and other services off network (and thus free).
Fear of the russian mob using the phone hardware to spy on or disrupt other people's communications.
Fear of lawsuits when it gets out that you illegally used copyrighted shit when making the phone's os image.
Fear of people finding out that you rig the fucking battery display to show higher than it is, or that you rig the reception indicator to show full bars when it shouldn't...until you make a call.
Fear of Bob deciding to take his shiny new toy to another network.
While virtually ALL of the reasons center around the company being afraid of people exploiting the company's stupidity, they are still valid concerns - the companies are stupid.
However, TFA is completely incorrect. Companies don't fear the unknown - they know EXACTLY what we'd do with open phones.
And I guess you didn't read my post. It doesn't matter when google decides to refresh it's cache. You can still get an invalid entry, an entry they haven't cached, or an entry that is currently being refreshed.
Any DNS server can choose how frequently to refresh it's cache, whether it updates or purges during a refresh, and whether or not to return the stale result (be it stale according to the official TTL or stale according to your own refresh frequency) while refreshing.
Updating your cache 1 hour before it needs to be updated is not magic. They just use a higher standard for the expiration date, and pay a price for it.
You: Gimme goat.se Google: That's not in my cache, hold on.
Google: Hey auth DNS gimme goat.se Auth: K, here.
Google: Hey you, here. You: K.
Your mom: Gimme goat.se: Google: Yeah, I have that, here. Your mom: K.
Your dad: I NEED the goat.se ! Google: Yeah I have that, but I need to recache it. Here's what I already have, it's probably still good.
Google: Hey auth DNS gimme goat.se Auth: K, here.
Your dad: WTF? Where's the gaping anus?! Google: Yeah, looks like the one I gave you before was wrong. No worries, this one is fresh. Your dad: Sweet mother of corn holes.
Updating your cache early doesn't solve anything. You get less of a chance of misses only because you've checked more frequently. This comes at a performance cost on Google's end. Any DNS provider can cache anything for however long they want and return whatever result they think is valid.
The obvious thing to do is return your most recent authoritative result for cached domains or get one if it's not a cached domain. Choosing to empty out your cache after something has expired vs. refreshing it from auth is a performance decision. As is choosing whether or not to dump something when updating, or keep it around in case you get requests for it while you're updating. As is the overall frequency with which you update your cache.
No magic, brilliance, or good will on Google's part here - just horsepower and the willingness to operate at a financial loss in order to mine more data.
The fact that you focus on the technology instead of the illegal and unconstitutional activities the government routinely engages in shows that you're a plebe.
The technology is already high resolution enough to detect breathing. It will only get more powerful. Complacency now just means in 10 years you'll have an exponentially harder time trying to fight back against the illegal use of the technology when it's far more powerful and even sheep like you view it as a threat.
People AREN'T complaining about the FCC approval. Read the comments - people are complaining that the technology is going to be used ilegally. No one gives a shit that it's approved by the FCC as a safe, non-disruptive (to other devices) technology.
Spying on ALL internet traffic, phone calls, etc. is a relatively small amount of activity?
No, they'll drive by neighborhoods looking through your house trying to find illegal activity. Then they tell a judge they got an anonymous tip, and get a warrant.
During WWII, the army needed a plan to repair broken radar installations.
The problem was that since the radar boxes were new and complicated, they needed a variety of heavy and expensive tools and parts to service them.
So you'd need a truck, a driver, the tools and parts, and the radar mechanic.
The likelihood of the area being in or across a battle zone was high. There was no way in hell you'd get your truck there to fix the thing.
The likelihood of the unit failing to do being blown the fuck up was very high. There was no way in hell you could rely on being able to repair the thing.
The final plan? Paradrop in mechanics with new radar units strapped to their backs to simply replace them.
would mod this up if i had mod points. he's right: tasers and wiretapping seemed relatively harmless at first too until they started using it on everyone. "everyone" only being applied to a fairly small subset of our community, of course. point is, i don't trust it.
WRONG. Were you on the internet a few years ago? Did you have any network traffic that touched any nodes owned by any of the major telcos? YOU WERE WIRETAPPED.
And tasers ARE relatively harmless. Remember - if you are just being a dick, tasers are relative to the baton. Would you like a taser in the gut or a baton to the back of the head? If you are being combative tasers are relative to the sidearm. Would you like a taser to the gut or half a dozen bullets in your chest?
What I find the most interesting is, people seem to assume that various agencies (1) will be using this to violate surveilance laws and the 4th ammendment, but at the same time (2) would have let lack of FCC approval stand in their way.
People think 1, but not 2.
And where the hell have you been? Hell, remember all the illegal wiretapping going on? Remember when your ISPs bent over for Bush? The people with access to this technology will use it however they want, and they want to spy on everyone.
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We voted for Obama because we no longer wanted our President to escalate an unnecessary war.
And you still fucked up.
www.yahoo.com is a TERRIBLE test. It's likely to be in your ISP's local cache. On the other hand, 57ms is terrible for Google on the same task.
Ad yahoo.com isn't in Google's cache?
He's a fool because, faced with internet censorship in his country, he decides OpenDNS will protect him.
Google has the best uptime and the most distributed architecture of any single computer system, unless you consider the internet to be a single entity; it has slightly better reach overall.
No it fucking doesn't you fucking moron.
Oh this is slashdot. I meant "Citation needed.".
That's not what open phone proponents want - they want complete control over the device. That includes the OS and the radios.
If it's not a public phone system, no one would buy it.
"OUR PHONE IS AWESOME"
"Cool! How do I call my friend?"
"He has to have one of our phones too..."
"Oh, no thanks."
You'd have to market the thing as a fancy walkie talkie.
All Google is doing is refreshing it's cache before entries expire.
DNS servers can and do return recently expired entries. It may not be to spec, but it fucking works and is right 99% of the time and you'll never know when they're doing it.
Google is doing nothing special by refreshing its cache early.
Then do it.
Get the FCC approve your devices for use.
Get any sort of decent battery life out of a mesh network with no towers while still maintaining access to the PSTN and emergency services.
Sell the device at a profit.
It's so easy why didn't I think of it?
There are many reasons to lock shit down.
Fear of teh hax0rs taking down a tower.
Fear of pirates sucking up your bandwidth, and getting all your apps for free.
Fear of zealots circumventing traditional pay schemes by getting voice, data, and other services off network (and thus free).
Fear of the russian mob using the phone hardware to spy on or disrupt other people's communications.
Fear of lawsuits when it gets out that you illegally used copyrighted shit when making the phone's os image.
Fear of people finding out that you rig the fucking battery display to show higher than it is, or that you rig the reception indicator to show full bars when it shouldn't...until you make a call.
Fear of Bob deciding to take his shiny new toy to another network.
While virtually ALL of the reasons center around the company being afraid of people exploiting the company's stupidity, they are still valid concerns - the companies are stupid.
However, TFA is completely incorrect. Companies don't fear the unknown - they know EXACTLY what we'd do with open phones.
And I guess you didn't read my post.
It doesn't matter when google decides to refresh it's cache. You can still get an invalid entry, an entry they haven't cached, or an entry that is currently being refreshed.
Any DNS server can choose how frequently to refresh it's cache, whether it updates or purges during a refresh, and whether or not to return the stale result (be it stale according to the official TTL or stale according to your own refresh frequency) while refreshing.
Updating your cache 1 hour before it needs to be updated is not magic. They just use a higher standard for the expiration date, and pay a price for it.
Of course you can still have cache misses.
You: Gimme goat.se
Google: That's not in my cache, hold on.
Google: Hey auth DNS gimme goat.se
Auth: K, here.
Google: Hey you, here.
You: K.
Your mom: Gimme goat.se:
Google: Yeah, I have that, here.
Your mom: K.
Your dad: I NEED the goat.se !
Google: Yeah I have that, but I need to recache it. Here's what I already have, it's probably still good.
Google: Hey auth DNS gimme goat.se
Auth: K, here.
Your dad: WTF? Where's the gaping anus?!
Google: Yeah, looks like the one I gave you before was wrong. No worries, this one is fresh.
Your dad: Sweet mother of corn holes.
Updating your cache early doesn't solve anything. You get less of a chance of misses only because you've checked more frequently. This comes at a performance cost on Google's end. Any DNS provider can cache anything for however long they want and return whatever result they think is valid.
The obvious thing to do is return your most recent authoritative result for cached domains or get one if it's not a cached domain. Choosing to empty out your cache after something has expired vs. refreshing it from auth is a performance decision. As is choosing whether or not to dump something when updating, or keep it around in case you get requests for it while you're updating. As is the overall frequency with which you update your cache.
No magic, brilliance, or good will on Google's part here - just horsepower and the willingness to operate at a financial loss in order to mine more data.
So Google fanboism has gotten to the point where people are HAPPY about getting more targetted ads?
The fact that you focus on the technology instead of the illegal and unconstitutional activities the government routinely engages in shows that you're a plebe.
The technology is already high resolution enough to detect breathing. It will only get more powerful. Complacency now just means in 10 years you'll have an exponentially harder time trying to fight back against the illegal use of the technology when it's far more powerful and even sheep like you view it as a threat.
People AREN'T complaining about the FCC approval.
Read the comments - people are complaining that the technology is going to be used ilegally. No one gives a shit that it's approved by the FCC as a safe, non-disruptive (to other devices) technology.
Spying on ALL internet traffic, phone calls, etc. is a relatively small amount of activity?
No, they'll drive by neighborhoods looking through your house trying to find illegal activity.
Then they tell a judge they got an anonymous tip, and get a warrant.
They do this with FLIR. (Yes, they still do it.)
And the fool forgot about the ceiling!
Friggin' radar strapped to friggin' helicopters!
The thousand watts used to cook my chicken pot pie are aimed at the chicken pot pie, not at me.
Both are safe, but your comparison is invalid.
During WWII, the army needed a plan to repair broken radar installations.
The problem was that since the radar boxes were new and complicated, they needed a variety of heavy and expensive tools and parts to service them.
So you'd need a truck, a driver, the tools and parts, and the radar mechanic.
The likelihood of the area being in or across a battle zone was high. There was no way in hell you'd get your truck there to fix the thing.
The likelihood of the unit failing to do being blown the fuck up was very high. There was no way in hell you could rely on being able to repair the thing.
The final plan? Paradrop in mechanics with new radar units strapped to their backs to simply replace them.
I don't know if they ever actually did it.
We're not Luddites, but rather paranoids whose fears have been justified by questionable government actions in the last 8 years.
-cyn1c77
Also, 8 years? Try 233 years.
If you are just being a dick, tasers are relative to the baton. Would you like a taser in the gut or a baton to the back of the head?
If you are being combative tasers are relative to the sidearm. Would you like a taser to the gut or half a dozen bullets in your chest?
would mod this up if i had mod points. he's right: tasers and wiretapping seemed relatively harmless at first too until they started using it on everyone. "everyone" only being applied to a fairly small subset of our community, of course. point is, i don't trust it.
WRONG.
Were you on the internet a few years ago? Did you have any network traffic that touched any nodes owned by any of the major telcos? YOU WERE WIRETAPPED.
And tasers ARE relatively harmless. Remember - if you are just being a dick, tasers are relative to the baton. Would you like a taser in the gut or a baton to the back of the head? If you are being combative tasers are relative to the sidearm. Would you like a taser to the gut or half a dozen bullets in your chest?
What I find the most interesting is, people seem to assume that various agencies (1) will be using this to violate surveilance laws and the 4th ammendment, but at the same time (2) would have let lack of FCC approval stand in their way.
People think 1, but not 2.
And where the hell have you been? Hell, remember all the illegal wiretapping going on? Remember when your ISPs bent over for Bush? The people with access to this technology will use it however they want, and they want to spy on everyone.
Waverace 64 is STILL the best feeling water-based game.
Blue Storm (the sequel on the gamecube) was great too, but the water physics didn't feel as tight.
I hope microsoft wins this. Of course, they will, because there's no one on earth they can't buy if they try hard enough.
They can only lease, not buy, the European Union.
Way to miss the point.
They both suck, but Exxon does something useful.
Climate "scientists" have done NOTHING to benefit mankind in ANY way, and are only serving a political agenda that will harm people.
They both suck, but at least Exxon does something useful.