Nope, that is not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that oil, diesel fuel, etc are so bloody higroscopic. Anyone who have tried to mix ammonal using what is written in the popular books (not the real ones) and had it refuse to explode will tell you that.
In order to keep oil dry you need a boatload of something like Calcium Stearate and a fully closed system. If it comes with contact with air anywhere it will go to 5-15% water in no time at all and become conductive. And then - boing...
Not really. In germany once you have payed the CD levy you are entitled to copy the music left right and center around your household. So if this is linked to prohibition of extortion like CactusShield and such I see no reason why not. PCs are cheap nowdays anyway.
That is the serious difference between control on the SPAM level and trader level. ASA involvement can be on the trader level. This means that they may directly force the trader (if a UK) company to restrain from SPAM practices and they may also issue such a decision.
It is true that their decisions do not have the force of a legal act. But AFAIK there have been practically no cases in recent UK history for a company to try to disobey them.
Did you notice the primary difference between what you wrote about and the AOL like IM?
What you are writing about requires verbal culture and a considerable knowledge of how to use IRC paraphernalia. IRC is by far better and richer then any IM ever invented. But it is its richness which is the problem.
And that is the reason why the click and drag culture will stay with IM.
UPS does not solve your scalability problem. Prevayler is OK for a small pet OO database. It is wothless shit as far as any more serious task is concerned.
All sane ISPs verify the routing updates versus access lists that are generated from routing registries like RIPE. Any routes that do not match what is declared publically and matches address space are discarded.
If you take routing updates without verification you get whatever you dererve.
It is more natural move then you think. The forecast for aol is to lose 4 billion in revenue due to broadband in the US over the next 10 (or 5?) years. So they are definitely trying to retain customer base with this one.
1. As far as I know, Sun tried to license NFS. Failed. For various reasons. Do not try to pull that "give to the community crap" at least as far as NFS is concerned.
2. Solaris (not SunOS) NFS support until 2.6 was crap. Many patchlevels even as late as 2.5.1 had quite a few data corruptions bugs. As a result most old non-academic installations actually used NetAppliance when they needed NFS.
3. I had to be a design authotity on something like 100+ Netra T1s with Solaris running the most elementary services like DNS, news, mail, etc. None of them running more then one service so they were not even loaded. And frankly I have not seen so many hardware failures and memory leaks in the core OS anytime before and anytime after. Basically white boxes from a bandit corner shop have lower failure rate and most linux kernels in the 2.3.x and 2.5.x series were more reliable.
4. If you have created a website that needs one 100+ CPUs box instead of having the load spread across several redundant systems you should be fired on the spot. Frankly, have you ever heard of single point of failure? Actually, have you heard of dot.bomb? There were some sites like "The Street" which tried this technological model. All of them failed and dragged several decent ISPs which decided to cater for this model with them.
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That is if your PHB and BOFH are lame. If they themselves have died a number of times past level 20 - I doubt it.
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Also it is plain bloody stupid because you still have to move the dead weight of the camshaft and 4 cylinders when you go into 4-only mode.
See the figures on recent models from Honda, Audi, VW or even Toyota or Nissan. The auto is usually 5% worse. After all it weights additional 50-60 kg over the manual transmission which you have to carry. So there is no way it can be more economical then manual that is driven correctly.
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Alternatively - drive in Eastern Europe.
All public transport in Eastern Europe as well as all taxis have been running on natural gas using a similar system (the french version which converts any carbeurator based design) for 15+ years now. There is a gas station every 10 km on major roads and every petrol station sells gas. Even Shell surrendered to the laws of economics and started selling natural gas.
While on the topic you will never see this honda in some other EU countries like Great Britain. The government income here depends so heavily on indirect taxation through fuel duty that such vehicles are outlawed. You can drive using the abomination calledl LPG. You cannot drive on natural gas.
That is exactly how will Palladium be implanted. You cannot graft palladium on top of the old IBM/Phoenix standard. You need to start from scratch and have a machine that is compliant from the moment the key is turned on.
In btw: nothing new here. This is the way all big Iron works. It starts enforcing licensing from firmware level so no way you can circumvent it.
So watch the words EFI. They are the words that will have to precede the words Palladium. Also do not even think about replacing the OS on such machine if the manufacturer has decided to disallow you to do so. And they very well can do this.
P2P can be (and usually is) captured with no problems whatsoever after you have filtered all known traffic. You take out the usual suspects like HTTP, FTP, SMTP, PPTP, IPSEC DNS, POP and a few other and 97% of all that is left happens to be P2P traffic. From there on actual fingerprinting will require knowlegde of the exact P2P protocol but even looking for simple strings can give more then enough information.
RC4 has a history of implementation flaws. It is a good algorithm but it is quite often applied to the wrong problem and IMO anything that is not classic stream and has known plaintext fragments is a "wrong problem". The results of such misapplications are well knonw. MSFT 40 bit PPTP, WEP are just a few fine examples.
So for this specific case I would personally run away from RC4 like hell.
Also, in order to do this attack the attacker has to a be a man in the middle with capability to intercept and replace traffic. Outside the scope of a university campus network the possibility for such attack is becoming a very rare occurance as most networks do not have a suitable point to do this without exposing yourself.
BSA, RIAA, MPAA and other A(sses) recently got into the habit to collect IPs from various P2P networks for further persecution so any "slacker" at work may bring you a BSA audit. Even, if your software is 100% legal, the time waste to fish out all licenses, proofs of purchase and prove that we are OK will cost any business a considerable amount of money.
Besides the BSA, RIAA, MPAA there is also the Script Kidd0tz A. Which also collects IPs from P2P services. Every time someone tries to run such shit at work (and invariably be caught) I notice an increase of 20-30% in the number of port scans we get.
And on top of all is the level of infestation of P2P networks with Troyans and other such shit.
So overall, anyone caught with P2P on the networks I run is offered an offer of either donating to GreenPeace, planting a tree for every attempted donwload or being referred to the boss for disciplinary measures.
The funniest bit here is that I QoS down all P2P shit to 32Kbit total for everyone with a 5% random drop. And everyone knows it. And there are still people trying from time to time (people apparently never ever learn).
That same claim can (and has) been leveled against the defense and intelligence industry for some time now.
Which hs been known to fabricate threats in order to achieve financing or advance towards their political or financial goals. Want examples? Search and you shall find some.
The first case proposes that money can be made via selling support for the free software product. This is by far the strongest case and is proven to work, for a few small companies.
IBM, Dec, SGI, Sun (w)are all small companies? Nice to hear that...
Hmm... Check their results over the last 30 years. They have not made a single penny out of OS licenses. In all cases development costs outweighted the OS license revenue by a margin of several times (excluding IBM suicidal abandoned licensing experiment with AiX 4.0). And in all cases the financial results in the OS divisions (and for many apps as well) came from support.
Sorry pal. You have no clue. At least as far as Operating System economic model is concerned. Compilers, infrastructure software, etc generally also fall into the same category. They have always lived out of support revenue and will continue to live out of it. Ever heard of IBM global services?
This does not mean that various other ecnomic models are not better for end-user apps, high end specialized software, etc. But that is an entirely different matter.
What have you been smoking? I want some ya know...
And, of course, remember that tthe station is not yet complete. Only the Shuttle can do that job.
What a load of bullshit. About half of it in terms of weight happened to be where it is on the back of a Proton booster. Which russians have been and are launching with a frequency of a flight per month or more to carry commercial satellite payloads. So no problem there whatsoever and actually the Shuttle is the most inefficient and expensive way to continue the expansion of the ISS.
Using the Russian craft effectively limits the station's capabilities. Since the Soyuz is the only way to get the crew off the station in an emergency, that means no more than 3 people can be onboard, which is about one-half the intended crew complement, I believe.
The ISS AFAIK has more then 6 docking ports. While you can dock at most two shuttles to it due to space constraints, you can make a Christmas tree of Soyuz and Progress craft out of it. Which in fact means more crew then with a shuttle.
The cargo-capacity of Progress, only a small fraction of the Shuttle's, is simply insufficient to resupply the station in the long term.
After you do a bang for the buck calculation you suddenly find out that Progress is actually a more efficient means of delivering payload. It is less then the shuttle at a time but it is more the enough as Salut and Mir has proved through the years.
Overall, using shuttle for the ISS is only a matter of politics. What the ISS needs to make itself ecomomically more reasonable is not more shuttle. It is a higher capacity cargo container launched with disposable boosters like the Ariana 5, Proton or if it is something even bigger Energia. After all that is what Energia was designed for - to be a modular booster capable to deliver hundreds of tons into low orbit (it cannot reach stationary).
1. The caller who logged the support call about the abominatory Vitria memory use ended up writing an in-house replacement in python+MySQL. With a memory footprint of less then 70MB. Same thing happened to a number of other high profile attempts to use Java in Telecoms billing. So there is nothing unreasonable in seeing python references. And at least that bit is right on bloody target.
2. If the memo is leaked the entire header is likely to be made surreal to avoid tracing to the origin.
3. Memos like this are usually issued by a manager as a result of consultation. In most cases some of the original contributions are omitted or misquoted and mistakes are introduced.
But then if you're talking true audiophile, they'd laugh at even thinking about having a PC anywhere near where they plan to listen to music. The fans on pretty much any moderm PC lift your ambient sound-floor to somewhere in the -60db range regardless of the quality of your output chain.
http://www.linitx.com/
Have a look at the barebones systems. Some of them are absolutely silent as they have no moving parts whatsoever. I do not know how good they are on the audo front though...
1. Use proxies instead of NAT and proxy transparently if needed. Yeah, I know, none of the P2P download sucker shit as it does not have proxies but such is life. 2. Use OSes with better randomisation of IP IDs. This is a tuneable parameter on most OSes and after you have turned it on the graphs are no longer so pretty.
1. If you have invested heavily in the process of getting certified will you be willing to allow the proliferation of competing technologies that will make your certification worthless? Ever tried to make a MSCE think "outside the box"? Ever tried to do this with a recertified one?
2. The process of refreshing your certification eats most of the time you can afford to use on education so the chance of learning something on a competing technology is decreased significantly.
Overall do you think MSFT is stupid or something? If they were they would not have been where they are now.
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Nope, that is not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that oil, diesel fuel, etc are so bloody higroscopic. Anyone who have tried to mix ammonal using what is written in the popular books (not the real ones) and had it refuse to explode will tell you that.
In order to keep oil dry you need a boatload of something like Calcium Stearate and a fully closed system. If it comes with contact with air anywhere it will go to 5-15% water in no time at all and become conductive. And then - boing...
Not really. In germany once you have payed the CD levy you are entitled to copy the music left right and center around your household. So if this is linked to prohibition of extortion like CactusShield and such I see no reason why not. PCs are cheap nowdays anyway.
I am working for a company that does use prevayler in production and knows its limitations.
And when talking about serious tasks I mean data set size.
And I have also dealt with prior java in-ram abominations like vitria and friends which ran into 9GB plus on Solaris.
Does this answer all of your questions and doubts?
That is the serious difference between control on the SPAM level and trader level. ASA involvement can be on the trader level. This means that they may directly force the trader (if a UK) company to restrain from SPAM practices and they may also issue such a decision.
It is true that their decisions do not have the force of a legal act. But AFAIK there have been practically no cases in recent UK history for a company to try to disobey them.
Did you notice the primary difference between what you wrote about and the AOL like IM?
What you are writing about requires verbal culture and a considerable knowledge of how to use IRC paraphernalia. IRC is by far better and richer then any IM ever invented. But it is its richness which is the problem.
And that is the reason why the click and drag culture will stay with IM.
UPS does not solve your scalability problem. Prevayler is OK for a small pet OO database. It is wothless shit as far as any more serious task is concerned.
This loads of bull
All sane ISPs verify the routing updates versus access lists that are generated from routing registries like RIPE. Any routes that do not match what is declared publically and matches address space are discarded.
If you take routing updates without verification you get whatever you dererve.
It is more natural move then you think. The forecast for aol is to lose 4 billion in revenue due to broadband in the US over the next 10 (or 5?) years. So they are definitely trying to retain customer base with this one.
IMO you need a clue bat application.
1. As far as I know, Sun tried to license NFS. Failed. For various reasons. Do not try to pull that "give to the community crap" at least as far as NFS is concerned.
2. Solaris (not SunOS) NFS support until 2.6 was crap. Many patchlevels even as late as 2.5.1 had quite a few data corruptions bugs. As a result most old non-academic installations actually used NetAppliance when they needed NFS.
3. I had to be a design authotity on something like 100+ Netra T1s with Solaris running the most elementary services like DNS, news, mail, etc. None of them running more then one service so they were not even loaded. And frankly I have not seen so many hardware failures and memory leaks in the core OS anytime before and anytime after. Basically white boxes from a bandit corner shop have lower failure rate and most linux kernels in the 2.3.x and 2.5.x series were more reliable.
4. If you have created a website that needs one 100+ CPUs box instead of having the load spread across several redundant systems you should be fired on the spot. Frankly, have you ever heard of single point of failure? Actually, have you heard of dot.bomb? There were some sites like "The Street" which tried this technological model. All of them failed and dragged several decent ISPs which decided to cater for this model with them.
That is if your PHB and BOFH are lame. If they themselves have died a number of times past level 20 - I doubt it.
Also it is plain bloody stupid because you still have to move the dead weight of the camshaft and 4 cylinders when you go into 4-only mode.
They are not.
Especially for urban.
See the figures on recent models from Honda, Audi, VW or even Toyota or Nissan. The auto is usually 5% worse. After all it weights additional 50-60 kg over the manual transmission which you have to carry. So there is no way it can be more economical then manual that is driven correctly.
Alternatively - drive in Eastern Europe.
All public transport in Eastern Europe as well as all taxis have been running on natural gas using a similar system (the french version which converts any carbeurator based design) for 15+ years now. There is a gas station every 10 km on major roads and every petrol station sells gas. Even Shell surrendered to the laws of economics and started selling natural gas.
While on the topic you will never see this honda in some other EU countries like Great Britain. The government income here depends so heavily on indirect taxation through fuel duty that such vehicles are outlawed. You can drive using the abomination calledl LPG. You cannot drive on natural gas.
That is exactly how will Palladium be implanted. You cannot graft palladium on top of the old IBM/Phoenix standard. You need to start from scratch and have a machine that is compliant from the moment the key is turned on.
In btw: nothing new here. This is the way all big Iron works. It starts enforcing licensing from firmware level so no way you can circumvent it.
So watch the words EFI. They are the words that will have to precede the words Palladium. Also do not even think about replacing the OS on such machine if the manufacturer has decided to disallow you to do so. And they very well can do this.
Which they are doing.
P2P can be (and usually is) captured with no problems whatsoever after you have filtered all known traffic. You take out the usual suspects like HTTP, FTP, SMTP, PPTP, IPSEC DNS, POP and a few other and 97% of all that is left happens to be P2P traffic. From there on actual fingerprinting will require knowlegde of the exact P2P protocol but even looking for simple strings can give more then enough information.
RC4 has a history of implementation flaws. It is a good algorithm but it is quite often applied to the wrong problem and IMO anything that is not classic stream and has known plaintext fragments is a "wrong problem". The results of such misapplications are well knonw. MSFT 40 bit PPTP, WEP are just a few fine examples.
So for this specific case I would personally run away from RC4 like hell.
Also, in order to do this attack the attacker has to a be a man in the middle with capability to intercept and replace traffic. Outside the scope of a university campus network the possibility for such attack is becoming a very rare occurance as most networks do not have a suitable point to do this without exposing yourself.
Soap is lamers replacement for styrene.
And what styrene is for when used with gasoline (and spiked with some phospohorus) you can easily find when looking through docs on Vietnam.
I will also add to this:
So overall, anyone caught with P2P on the networks I run is offered an offer of either donating to GreenPeace, planting a tree for every attempted donwload or being referred to the boss for disciplinary measures.
The funniest bit here is that I QoS down all P2P shit to 32Kbit total for everyone with a 5% random drop. And everyone knows it. And there are still people trying from time to time (people apparently never ever learn).
Which hs been known to fabricate threats in order to achieve financing or advance towards their political or financial goals. Want examples? Search and you shall find some.
The first case proposes that money can be made via selling support for the free software product. This is by far the strongest case and is proven to work, for a few small companies.
IBM, Dec, SGI, Sun (w)are all small companies? Nice to hear that...
Hmm... Check their results over the last 30 years. They have not made a single penny out of OS licenses. In all cases development costs outweighted the OS license revenue by a margin of several times (excluding IBM suicidal abandoned licensing experiment with AiX 4.0). And in all cases the financial results in the OS divisions (and for many apps as well) came from support.
Sorry pal. You have no clue. At least as far as Operating System economic model is concerned. Compilers, infrastructure software, etc generally also fall into the same category. They have always lived out of support revenue and will continue to live out of it. Ever heard of IBM global services?
This does not mean that various other ecnomic models are not better for end-user apps, high end specialized software, etc. But that is an entirely different matter.
And, of course, remember that tthe station is not yet complete. Only the Shuttle can do that job.
What a load of bullshit. About half of it in terms of weight happened to be where it is on the back of a Proton booster. Which russians have been and are launching with a frequency of a flight per month or more to carry commercial satellite payloads. So no problem there whatsoever and actually the Shuttle is the most inefficient and expensive way to continue the expansion of the ISS.
Using the Russian craft effectively limits the station's capabilities. Since the Soyuz is the only way to get the crew off the station in an emergency, that means no more than 3 people can be onboard, which is about one-half the intended crew complement, I believe.
The ISS AFAIK has more then 6 docking ports. While you can dock at most two shuttles to it due to space constraints, you can make a Christmas tree of Soyuz and Progress craft out of it. Which in fact means more crew then with a shuttle.
The cargo-capacity of Progress, only a small fraction of the Shuttle's, is simply insufficient to resupply the station in the long term.
After you do a bang for the buck calculation you suddenly find out that Progress is actually a more efficient means of delivering payload. It is less then the shuttle at a time but it is more the enough as Salut and Mir has proved through the years.
Overall, using shuttle for the ISS is only a matter of politics. What the ISS needs to make itself ecomomically more reasonable is not more shuttle. It is a higher capacity cargo container launched with disposable boosters like the Ariana 5, Proton or if it is something even bigger Energia. After all that is what Energia was designed for - to be a modular booster capable to deliver hundreds of tons into low orbit (it cannot reach stationary).
Nothing amusing there.
1. The caller who logged the support call about the abominatory Vitria memory use ended up writing an in-house replacement in python+MySQL. With a memory footprint of less then 70MB. Same thing happened to a number of other high profile attempts to use Java in Telecoms billing. So there is nothing unreasonable in seeing python references. And at least that bit is right on bloody target.
2. If the memo is leaked the entire header is likely to be made surreal to avoid tracing to the origin.
3. Memos like this are usually issued by a manager as a result of consultation. In most cases some of the original contributions are omitted or misquoted and mistakes are introduced.
4. Overall, it looks real enough to me.
http://www.linitx.com/
Have a look at the barebones systems. Some of them are absolutely silent as they have no moving parts whatsoever. I do not know how good they are on the audo front though...
There are already several simpler ways:
1. Use proxies instead of NAT and proxy transparently if needed. Yeah, I know, none of the P2P download sucker shit as it does not have proxies but such is life.
2. Use OSes with better randomisation of IP IDs. This is a tuneable parameter on most OSes and after you have turned it on the graphs are no longer so pretty.
It is not a flaw. It is there by design.
Think!
1. If you have invested heavily in the process of getting certified will you be willing to allow the proliferation of competing technologies that will make your certification worthless? Ever tried to make a MSCE think "outside the box"? Ever tried to do this with a recertified one?
2. The process of refreshing your certification eats most of the time you can afford to use on education so the chance of learning something on a competing technology is decreased significantly.
Overall do you think MSFT is stupid or something? If they were they would not have been where they are now.