The problem with this is that some of the original recipients of those really big blocks like GM and HP were given those addresses, not leased them. They, for all practical purposes, own that address space.
I know the organization I work for is a part of the problem. Before ARIN existed, a group of three schools (I work for one of them) were granted a/8 as a part of our research status. We have no relation with ARIN, and there isn't even a way to really give back 100 of the/16's we don't use.
And there are a lot of things that are still considered "Experimental" with IPv6. Things like multicast among many others are still standards that are being worked out by the vendors.
Keep one old browser for that specific application, and upgrade the rest. I still keep my copy of Firefox downgraded to some stupid old version because of my ERP system, but I use Chrome at the latest.
It comes from all over. Cruise ships and other large carriers dump their trash into the ocean. Some countries dump their trash into the ocean. Some countries don't cover their trash-filled landfills, and the debris becomes airborne and land in the ocean. And those are just the intentional ones -- if a ship capsizes, you don't think it's contents just disappears, do you?
It dosen't take one large source for this to be a problem. As time marches on, it is a bunch of little sources that are contributing to make one big mess.
My laptop holds about a 9 hour battery charge while in use (if I set the display brightness all the way down). My cell lasts about 7 days on moderate use, but if I turn on the tethering, it drops down to about 4 hours. I carry a few of those small USB batteries which usually make the cell last for my trip.
I'm able to travel and have connectivity if the poop hits the oscillator if I need it, provided I'm within data service of Verizon (likely) or TMO (less likely). It's best to check with the carriers first to make sure they have something in that area.
I'm lucky my co-workers can handle about 90% of any situations that can arise. And 50% of those that they can't can usually wait. Unfortunately, being understaffed in an IT role means that you do need connectivity sometimes. You may want to find out if you can form a partnership so you have some backup for those emergencies... Forming a partnership just for coverage isn't bad -- and I'm sure there are people you've learned to trust that can help you out.
I tried using this the other day... It doesn't support Windows 10 or Linux, regardless of the browser. United's solution requires you to install a custom plugin into IE or use Safari. On two trans-continental flights, I couldn't get it to work -- and I had time to burn.
You are also assuming that they are only storing the license plate date. Chances are, they are storing lat/lon data, direction of travel, and more than likely, a picture of the scanned license plate. Also, the OS, software for the reader, DB software of some kind, etc. etc.
I for one have seen men and women working in IT with said skills. Besides, why would you even be using an authentication protocol your own staff has no clue about? That's just calling for trouble.
Also, the ROI estimates I've usually seen decision makers rely on are one dimensional plain simple characterizations that hardly reflect the real world we live in. It's an insanely complex task getting it right and all that money could be used in actually getting things done.
Sure, I've seen quite a few people with those skills. They don't work for me, and they probably don't work for the OP. If authentication is not in your line of business for your company, why are you making an internal product to do it? Oh, and it's a lot easier to implement a protocol like LDAP or RADIUS in an existing application than to build one from scratch. Knowing about 3DES TLS sockets is important, but let the professionals write the implementation.
If it was easy to do, the list would include hundreds of products -- many of them open source. That should give you a clue.
Building and open-sourcing custom solutions tailored for your personal needs is pointless. We're not talking about some universal it-does-everything solution, but a solution that will be tailored in-house to fit *your* unique combination of services and software. Nobody else would have the same needs as you.
Sure. Your business is a special snowflake for everything you do. I get it. No other business has ever tackled doing authentication management before ever -- and none of them have ever integrated with one of the common SaaS products before. It's a good thing you are spending multiple man-years building an internal product rather than focusing on stuff you can sell, implement, consult on, or you know, make money on. Spending 1 FTE year building something that can be bought off the shelf for $50,000 is not worth it, if that product for $50,000 can do everything for you already.
Oh, it CAN be done. You just have to have somebody on staff who is an expert at RADIUS, LDAP, AD-AUTH, Kerberos, OAuth and probably a dozen other protocols that deal with authentication and authorization. Oh, and then a proper security audit because if you do it in house, are you sure that you can't drive a MAC truck through it?
Having done the ROI estimate on such a project, we couldn't do it. And this was for a company that had at least standardized on products that use RADIUS and LDAP for all things they offered auth for.
If it was easy to do, the list would include hundreds of products -- many of them open source. That should give you a clue.
He's never brought it up publicly, so I don't know. The petition on change.org hasn't reached the threashold for him to comment on yet either. Bush Jr. (W) changed the law significantly for those who were in IT. A majority of us weren't considered professionals who now are under the law. In 2002 Network Techs, Programmers, IT workers, etc. were all newly considered "professionals" and became OT exempt at the federal level. Some states like California and Connecticut passed individual laws that didn't make all IT workers OT exempt.
Overtime is not guaranteed for anybody classified as a professional -- and our last president decided to expand professional to include "anybody who who uses a computer for a primary function of their job." Smart companies who don't like to burn out workers will provide benefits like OT past 40 hours (or in your case, 44), and discourage work outside of business hours. Companies that see employees simply as Human "Resources," no different than copiers or PCs will often get as much as they can out of them without regard to efficiencies, health or happiness.
After the stock market crashed, I saw the shift at my own place of business. Positions were cut or not re-filled after retirements, and more and more workload was added to the job. The number of hours started creeping up -- slowly at first, but then as it happened it became normal then expected. Where we should have two full time shifts we have one. All the after-hours changes and maintenance work is done by those that work the day shifts. It's caused quite a few people in our department to look for new jobs.
I used to work at Intel, and they had a very strong, employee-focused approach at their jobs. They highly discouraged anything beyond 40 hours, and if you did (it happened every so often), we got paid. Projects that required additional resources generally got them either via temporary help or from others in the organization. Places like that do exist, but they are becoming rarer and rarer.
Between two hospitals and a medical school, we have > 300 fax machines on site. I'm pretty sure the mortgage industry has some help from their friendly doctors:)
As already stated in the comments a few times, it will be free "forever" after you upgrade, since you already had a license. You still keep downgrade rights to the version you upgraded from. New PCs, if you wait longer than a year, and rebuilds where you don't have a license anymore, etc. will have to pay for a full license when it is out.
We use JIRA at Apache for all the Apache projects. I wouldn't say it's the best software in the world, but it is better than most of the other ones I've personally used. They don't seem to have the stability issues you listed . Some of my direct clients use JIRA as well, and they have never mentioned stability issues with it either...
Or how about you use a large-format "scantron". You fill in the bubble, and scan it. The paper copy can be re-counted, but it can be easily electronically calculated. Why do we need the touch screen? It seems like people want to introduce technology just for the sake of introducing technology.
So, you are saying that if you are blind or have partial sight there is no point in you ever being a programmer, maker or grid admin?
While I'm lucky to have most of my sight (I'm only blind in one eye), some of my good friends are completely blind. One is a system admin and is a very functional member of society. He admins a few dozen Linux servers but is completely unable to use Linux as a desktop.
But accessibility is not just about the blind or deaf. It also includes color blindness, those who are unable to fully click a mouse, etc. Having a myopic view of how people use computers is not a great position to be in. If you think about accessibility then your products (or apps you write) start to become more open and easier to use on other platforms like tablets, phones, tv's.
I could buy a copy of Windows for about $200 (retail). Since I pay my developers about $100 an hour, that means if they can't outfit the entire OS and window manager with basic accessibility functionality, then the choice is pretty easy. Even if I had to buy 100 copies of Windows at retail ($20,000), I'm sure I couldn't hire a dev to touch that many projects, considering the 100's of different communities, different programming styles, different languages and different systems. This is not just 1 app that isn't accessible, it's (pretty much) ALL OF THEM.
Even if you try to get a screen reader to launch (not an easy task), you will notice that it fires off something may once every 20 - 30 actions if you are lucky. If that is the only way to get feedback from your system that wouldn't be considered usable by any means.
JAWS used with IE under Windows is still the most popular, but others are quickly gaining momentum. It's still what everybody serious about accessibility tests with.
Surprisingly, accessibility support in OSX is almost at the point where it is better than Windows... Not every app just yet, but it has been getting a lot of attention and a lot of people trying it out.
Just because it's open source doesn't mean it's great. I'd classify accessibility for blind/less sighted users to be non-existent (with the exception of a few applications). Every iteration of X Windows since X11 has been worse and worse with its implementation, and if things go wrong it is nearly impossible to get around. A few applications that implement the full GTK stack/properly/ are passable, but those that use Gnome's or KDE's tools don't pass text back to a speech engine at all.
Console is fine, but as soon as you try and use a tool that uses ncurses or any other menuing application you are SOL.
Firefox hasn't worked well with a screen reader in about 5 years. Never was able to get Chrome fully installed.
Assuming you are only talking about last-mile video service.
If you bring data service into the mix, it drops down to Cable vs. "Ma Bell". While Sattelite technically have data solutions, they no longer qualify as "broadband" under the new definition. In many locations, DSL service does not qualify as broadband either.
If you bring content into the mix, Comcast bought NBC Universal, which owns a large set of channels. They've been using that position and extorting their smaller competitors in certain markets. Time Warner also comes with a set of channels making the merged company even more powerful in contract negotiations with their competitors in markers where they overlap.
Comcast would continue to be the largest ISP in the United States, and would essentially gobble up #3. This makes them more and more powerful for lobbying, regulations and pretty much everything else.
I live about 85 miles from the closest Apple store.. Pretty much every interaction I've had when them is through an authorized reseller or via web/mail/phone. Forcing you to go to a store to pick one up is pretty much a PITA. Oh, and I don't live in the boondocks -- I'm in a city of 300,000 people, but stuck between two major markets, so Apple has passed us by.
Cisco has been pushing SIP based IP phones for remote workers for years. Those remote workers may or may not have their phone in front of their firewall. These phones connect back through a session border controller at the edge of the company's network and then brings that traffic inside (think of a application-layer VPN tunnel).
I don't get what an SBC has to do with phone reachable from the outside. If it is reachable from the outside, then it is reachable, and people can POST XML documents to it to make it do weird things. An SBC only protects the inside of your network from the outside (like a firewall), but once the phone has been compromised then the SBC sees that traffic as legal traffic from a known device.
This could be a huge issue for toll-fraud. Scammers I'm sure will start scanning for this vulnerability and use valid phones that are exposed to the outside to route calls through people's phone systems.
That is how many items generated by the government get archived -- by paper. Even for phone records, once their "electronic usefulness has been outlived," they are printed, stored offsite and then deleted.
People know how to handle and read paper. People don't know how to handle.PST files.
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The problem with this is that some of the original recipients of those really big blocks like GM and HP were given those addresses, not leased them. They, for all practical purposes, own that address space.
I know the organization I work for is a part of the problem. Before ARIN existed, a group of three schools (I work for one of them) were granted a /8 as a part of our research status. We have no relation with ARIN, and there isn't even a way to really give back 100 of the /16's we don't use.
And there are a lot of things that are still considered "Experimental" with IPv6. Things like multicast among many others are still standards that are being worked out by the vendors.
Keep one old browser for that specific application, and upgrade the rest. I still keep my copy of Firefox downgraded to some stupid old version because of my ERP system, but I use Chrome at the latest.
It comes from all over. Cruise ships and other large carriers dump their trash into the ocean. Some countries dump their trash into the ocean. Some countries don't cover their trash-filled landfills, and the debris becomes airborne and land in the ocean. And those are just the intentional ones -- if a ship capsizes, you don't think it's contents just disappears, do you?
It dosen't take one large source for this to be a problem. As time marches on, it is a bunch of little sources that are contributing to make one big mess.
My laptop holds about a 9 hour battery charge while in use (if I set the display brightness all the way down). My cell lasts about 7 days on moderate use, but if I turn on the tethering, it drops down to about 4 hours. I carry a few of those small USB batteries which usually make the cell last for my trip.
I'm able to travel and have connectivity if the poop hits the oscillator if I need it, provided I'm within data service of Verizon (likely) or TMO (less likely). It's best to check with the carriers first to make sure they have something in that area.
I'm lucky my co-workers can handle about 90% of any situations that can arise. And 50% of those that they can't can usually wait. Unfortunately, being understaffed in an IT role means that you do need connectivity sometimes. You may want to find out if you can form a partnership so you have some backup for those emergencies... Forming a partnership just for coverage isn't bad -- and I'm sure there are people you've learned to trust that can help you out.
I tried using this the other day... It doesn't support Windows 10 or Linux, regardless of the browser. United's solution requires you to install a custom plugin into IE or use Safari. On two trans-continental flights, I couldn't get it to work -- and I had time to burn.
You are also assuming that they are only storing the license plate date. Chances are, they are storing lat/lon data, direction of travel, and more than likely, a picture of the scanned license plate. Also, the OS, software for the reader, DB software of some kind, etc. etc.
I for one have seen men and women working in IT with said skills. Besides, why would you even be using an authentication protocol your own staff has no clue about? That's just calling for trouble.
Also, the ROI estimates I've usually seen decision makers rely on are one dimensional plain simple characterizations that hardly reflect the real world we live in. It's an insanely complex task getting it right and all that money could be used in actually getting things done.
Sure, I've seen quite a few people with those skills. They don't work for me, and they probably don't work for the OP. If authentication is not in your line of business for your company, why are you making an internal product to do it? Oh, and it's a lot easier to implement a protocol like LDAP or RADIUS in an existing application than to build one from scratch. Knowing about 3DES TLS sockets is important, but let the professionals write the implementation.
If it was easy to do, the list would include hundreds of products -- many of them open source. That should give you a clue.
Building and open-sourcing custom solutions tailored for your personal needs is pointless. We're not talking about some universal it-does-everything solution, but a solution that will be tailored in-house to fit *your* unique combination of services and software. Nobody else would have the same needs as you.
Sure. Your business is a special snowflake for everything you do. I get it. No other business has ever tackled doing authentication management before ever -- and none of them have ever integrated with one of the common SaaS products before. It's a good thing you are spending multiple man-years building an internal product rather than focusing on stuff you can sell, implement, consult on, or you know, make money on. Spending 1 FTE year building something that can be bought off the shelf for $50,000 is not worth it, if that product for $50,000 can do everything for you already.
Oh, it CAN be done. You just have to have somebody on staff who is an expert at RADIUS, LDAP, AD-AUTH, Kerberos, OAuth and probably a dozen other protocols that deal with authentication and authorization. Oh, and then a proper security audit because if you do it in house, are you sure that you can't drive a MAC truck through it?
Having done the ROI estimate on such a project, we couldn't do it. And this was for a company that had at least standardized on products that use RADIUS and LDAP for all things they offered auth for.
If it was easy to do, the list would include hundreds of products -- many of them open source. That should give you a clue.
Just this comes to mind : https://youtu.be/oeT5otk2R1g
He's never brought it up publicly, so I don't know. The petition on change.org hasn't reached the threashold for him to comment on yet either. Bush Jr. (W) changed the law significantly for those who were in IT. A majority of us weren't considered professionals who now are under the law. In 2002 Network Techs, Programmers, IT workers, etc. were all newly considered "professionals" and became OT exempt at the federal level. Some states like California and Connecticut passed individual laws that didn't make all IT workers OT exempt.
Overtime is not guaranteed for anybody classified as a professional -- and our last president decided to expand professional to include "anybody who who uses a computer for a primary function of their job." Smart companies who don't like to burn out workers will provide benefits like OT past 40 hours (or in your case, 44), and discourage work outside of business hours. Companies that see employees simply as Human "Resources," no different than copiers or PCs will often get as much as they can out of them without regard to efficiencies, health or happiness.
After the stock market crashed, I saw the shift at my own place of business. Positions were cut or not re-filled after retirements, and more and more workload was added to the job. The number of hours started creeping up -- slowly at first, but then as it happened it became normal then expected. Where we should have two full time shifts we have one. All the after-hours changes and maintenance work is done by those that work the day shifts. It's caused quite a few people in our department to look for new jobs.
I used to work at Intel, and they had a very strong, employee-focused approach at their jobs. They highly discouraged anything beyond 40 hours, and if you did (it happened every so often), we got paid. Projects that required additional resources generally got them either via temporary help or from others in the organization. Places like that do exist, but they are becoming rarer and rarer.
Between two hospitals and a medical school, we have > 300 fax machines on site. I'm pretty sure the mortgage industry has some help from their friendly doctors :)
As already stated in the comments a few times, it will be free "forever" after you upgrade, since you already had a license. You still keep downgrade rights to the version you upgraded from. New PCs, if you wait longer than a year, and rebuilds where you don't have a license anymore, etc. will have to pay for a full license when it is out.
We use JIRA at Apache for all the Apache projects. I wouldn't say it's the best software in the world, but it is better than most of the other ones I've personally used. They don't seem to have the stability issues you listed . Some of my direct clients use JIRA as well, and they have never mentioned stability issues with it either...
Or how about you use a large-format "scantron". You fill in the bubble, and scan it. The paper copy can be re-counted, but it can be easily electronically calculated. Why do we need the touch screen? It seems like people want to introduce technology just for the sake of introducing technology.
So, you are saying that if you are blind or have partial sight there is no point in you ever being a programmer, maker or grid admin?
While I'm lucky to have most of my sight (I'm only blind in one eye), some of my good friends are completely blind. One is a system admin and is a very functional member of society. He admins a few dozen Linux servers but is completely unable to use Linux as a desktop.
But accessibility is not just about the blind or deaf. It also includes color blindness, those who are unable to fully click a mouse, etc. Having a myopic view of how people use computers is not a great position to be in. If you think about accessibility then your products (or apps you write) start to become more open and easier to use on other platforms like tablets, phones, tv's.
I could buy a copy of Windows for about $200 (retail). Since I pay my developers about $100 an hour, that means if they can't outfit the entire OS and window manager with basic accessibility functionality, then the choice is pretty easy. Even if I had to buy 100 copies of Windows at retail ($20,000), I'm sure I couldn't hire a dev to touch that many projects, considering the 100's of different communities, different programming styles, different languages and different systems. This is not just 1 app that isn't accessible, it's (pretty much) ALL OF THEM.
Even if you try to get a screen reader to launch (not an easy task), you will notice that it fires off something may once every 20 - 30 actions if you are lucky. If that is the only way to get feedback from your system that wouldn't be considered usable by any means.
JAWS used with IE under Windows is still the most popular, but others are quickly gaining momentum. It's still what everybody serious about accessibility tests with.
Surprisingly, accessibility support in OSX is almost at the point where it is better than Windows... Not every app just yet, but it has been getting a lot of attention and a lot of people trying it out.
Just because it's open source doesn't mean it's great. I'd classify accessibility for blind/less sighted users to be non-existent (with the exception of a few applications). Every iteration of X Windows since X11 has been worse and worse with its implementation, and if things go wrong it is nearly impossible to get around. A few applications that implement the full GTK stack /properly/ are passable, but those that use Gnome's or KDE's tools don't pass text back to a speech engine at all.
Console is fine, but as soon as you try and use a tool that uses ncurses or any other menuing application you are SOL.
Firefox hasn't worked well with a screen reader in about 5 years. Never was able to get Chrome fully installed.
Assuming you are only talking about last-mile video service.
If you bring data service into the mix, it drops down to Cable vs. "Ma Bell". While Sattelite technically have data solutions, they no longer qualify as "broadband" under the new definition. In many locations, DSL service does not qualify as broadband either.
If you bring content into the mix, Comcast bought NBC Universal, which owns a large set of channels. They've been using that position and extorting their smaller competitors in certain markets. Time Warner also comes with a set of channels making the merged company even more powerful in contract negotiations with their competitors in markers where they overlap.
Comcast would continue to be the largest ISP in the United States, and would essentially gobble up #3. This makes them more and more powerful for lobbying, regulations and pretty much everything else.
I live about 85 miles from the closest Apple store.. Pretty much every interaction I've had when them is through an authorized reseller or via web/mail/phone. Forcing you to go to a store to pick one up is pretty much a PITA. Oh, and I don't live in the boondocks -- I'm in a city of 300,000 people, but stuck between two major markets, so Apple has passed us by.
Cisco has been pushing SIP based IP phones for remote workers for years. Those remote workers may or may not have their phone in front of their firewall. These phones connect back through a session border controller at the edge of the company's network and then brings that traffic inside (think of a application-layer VPN tunnel).
I don't get what an SBC has to do with phone reachable from the outside. If it is reachable from the outside, then it is reachable, and people can POST XML documents to it to make it do weird things. An SBC only protects the inside of your network from the outside (like a firewall), but once the phone has been compromised then the SBC sees that traffic as legal traffic from a known device.
This could be a huge issue for toll-fraud. Scammers I'm sure will start scanning for this vulnerability and use valid phones that are exposed to the outside to route calls through people's phone systems.
That is how many items generated by the government get archived -- by paper. Even for phone records, once their "electronic usefulness has been outlived," they are printed, stored offsite and then deleted.
People know how to handle and read paper. People don't know how to handle .PST files.