They mention to keep it secure, every part of the OS, from the firmware, to the kernel, to the apps will be signed. (to make it impossible to inject code or modules) They can keep their own keys, and just open source the code. Then, you could fork, and make a Firefox OS or whatever, but you will not have the keys to change the official ChromeOS.
But the key will be the custom firmware, that can be signed, and required to boot the signed kernel. That would give them a secure way of ensuring that only certain hardware can run the official google OS, and people can test and dink with forks...
No, the system didn't fully work. The TSA changed its "internal policies".. That is much different than a legal precedent, and of course, they can be changed right back, in a month. A person violating "internal policies" might get "disciplined" which is a long way from what's going to happen to someone for willfuly violating your rights. (And really, some of those minimum wage power tripping ego's really do need to get knocked back a few notches.) Also, if I'm not mistaken, pretty much all of the airports use Contractors to actually hire the agents. I'm not sure exactly how much training the employees get, since that would cut into the companies profits...
You know what I did last time my Cell company wanted to charge an upgrade fee? After 2 minutes of arguing it with the rep, I told him their competitor didn't charge "joining fees".. And then, (the key most people don't do after threatening) I told him I was going to a competitor because of it, walked out, went two stores down, and signed up with their competitor, and ported my number. (and really I like USCellular. I don't need data plans, and free incoming calls and texts is kinda nice!) If more people actually followed through, and told the company why they were leaving, those crappy fees would disapear.
You know, thats nice and all, but with a few blacklists, you are able to reduce your email traffic by a metric ton. When I worked at a place that had a T1, you could measure the email traffic in double digit percentages.. After adding blacklists, it dropped to around 1% of total traffic, since many of the blacklists stopped the email before sending the body of the message. Now they use a Barracuda, which has a managed blacklist, but still, huge cut in traffic, and they had a 300Mhz p2 desktop running as their mailserver for a while, and it ran postfix just dandy for the 75 full time employees.
No, not exchange. Blackberry servers.. If your company runs its own BES servers (often connected to your own exchange servers) then all phones have to use the "Enterprise" data plans for connecting to it. Otherwise, they can only see blackberries servers, and proxy your mail through them. So companies that want to actually encrypt, and force policies pay out the nose. I had heard from our mail admins that RIM actually demands that little feature, and gets a cut of the monthly extra.
All of their websites that have any important (ie, not marketing) information, including drivers, SPM, and maintenance stuff are all hosted on IBM's servers. All my parts I order (I'm a certified lenovo tech) come from IBM. Most of the people that do R&D are at IBM. Seriously, put down your thinkpad, and go pickup an "Ideapad" laptop. Completely different, and completely crap. (My wife has a Y510). All lenovo actually does, it would appear, is Assemble the machines in China.
Not to mention, every time my "next day parts" take 3 days to arrive, I get excuses about how they figured out some of our laptops in Location X didn't get setup for onsite service, because there was a "glitch" between their systems and IBMs. (that seems to be our Lenovo Reps favorite excuse, and were really getting tired of it) We have been told it would take a week to get parts for next day service, since it was a holiday in china, and all the factories were closed. We wait quite a while when they run out of parts, and new ones have to come through customs.. (or when we order a new batch of systems on the deadlines their sales teams give us)
Lenovo bought the rights to Thinkpads, ThinkStations, and Thinkcentre's how many years ago, and they still rely on IBM like you wouldn't believe.
He argues that the problem is, the client doesn't usually hit the DNS server, the clients DNS server only does after it expires its own local cache.
Just because your ISP's DNS servers are sitting in LA, doesn't mean you are. You could be on Seattle, and using those DNS servers, or out in the world, on the work VPN, using their DNS server in downtown Chicago. Thats how many people get around regional restrictions now, in fact.
People have shoehorned DNS into something that it is neither Efficient, or designed to do.
They are a very big division of GE, that makes equipment, like X-Ray machines, and software, such as electronic medical record software...
Interestingly enough, someone there has recently said that as profitable as GE Healthcare is, it doesn't bring in as much money as GE as a whole pays for healthcare for its employees.
I don't think you meant sequent, but they are a doubly bad example, since they were purchased by IBM for a very large sum, They had some very killer tech, and it was later incorporated into many of the Power Systems designs. IBM was desperate in those times to stop losing UNIX machines to Sun and HP.
I did love how the article mentioned that they are working on installing more reliable equipment. WTF? 30 something years is not reliable enough? Are they wanting the next one to work for 50?
Yes, it would. In order to send an email from "FDIC.gov" they would have to hijack an account at FDIC.gov. This allows you to quickly trace back the problem.
With both Domain Keys, and SPF, you can specify which servers are "authorized" to send for your domain (or have a signed key) and mail relayed from other servers will show up as invalid, and be discarded or dumped to your spam box
Basically, the scammer/spammer would have to target the people they want to spoof first, instead of sending their legion of Zombied machines a list of Yahoo and hotmail accounts to spam from. Entirely possible, but would require a drasticly larger amount of work and technical ability to work.
If you don't have children, should you then pay a much higher rate for Social Security and Medicare, since you aren't bringing anyone into the world to cover your costs when your collecting it?
Things like SPF, and Domain Keys, and signed DNS would all prevent this. They would all help ensure that emails are coming from who they say they are coming from.
Instead of "blocking" things, why not force all government agencies to setup SPF and Domain keys, and maybe start signing the.GOV domain?
ZFS also can export as iSCSI, so really, it is doing 90% of what other SAN Solutions do. I just don't know much about its failover and clustering of a group of machines, (also known as network raid in some iscsi products)..
But yeah.. When I was shopping for a SAN, I was often asking vendors how their stuff compared performance and price/TB wise to a Sun 4500 server.. They would get very, very quiet.
I wonder if you can dump your rainbow tables to amazons simpleDB service? If I remember correctly, bandwidth between simpleDB and their virtual servers is free..
You know.. there are usually more than 2 people to vote for. Those people way at the bottom, that can't pay for slick advertising, consultants, and campaign signs in every lawn.
You might be surprised to know, that in many areas, those "other" parties are just a few votes away from getting local campaign funding just like the main 2 do, but they usually have to get a certain percentage of the popular vote in one election, to get campaign funding in the next one.
This is also the case with the presidential race. I voted for a 3rd party this year, not because I was "throwing away my vote" (as if that was possible, I just refused to vote for either of the two "lesser of evils") But because if enough people got fed up and did this, then suddenly, that 3rd party could get access to presidential campaign money from the federal government, get allowed into the now locked down presidential debates (remember when the league of women voters ran those? Right up till they invited Ross Perot to one)
Its not the regulations in the country, its the publishers.. Often times, a company will sell distribution rights to American shows to international companies.. For example, some other company might be broadcasting "Grey's Anatomy" (i know, cringe) in argentina, and they paid for the rights from the company that makes Greys Anatomy. Hulu doesn't own these rights in Argentina, the other company does.. Or sometimes, it gets even weirder, like how "The Office" is a US show, that is based on but wholly different than a British version of the same show. Or American Idol in the US is different than American Idol in the UK, except that Simon Cowell or whatever his name is in both.
They do some basic Geo-Location now... When I watch ABC shows, my local ABC Affiliates banner shows up in the bottom left of the screen. if they could partner with Google (as in youtube) to do more 'local' advertising, it would be huge for them. They would really, really open up the market to small advertisers, instead of just nationwide ads now.
Yes, they are Far, far more accurate, and they work where there are no Cell Phone towers. They are also (usually) easy to extract the information from in standard forms and then use in your own applications (such as google earth pro) to make your own maps. If you hike the Pacific Crest trail, you will have GPS for almost all of it (if you really wanted to lug batteries). With a cell-phone, you are very lucky when you get coverage... Also, the older style, non-touchscreen GPS's can work for a week on a pair of AA Batteries.
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They mention to keep it secure, every part of the OS, from the firmware, to the kernel, to the apps will be signed. (to make it impossible to inject code or modules) They can keep their own keys, and just open source the code. Then, you could fork, and make a Firefox OS or whatever, but you will not have the keys to change the official ChromeOS.
But the key will be the custom firmware, that can be signed, and required to boot the signed kernel. That would give them a secure way of ensuring that only certain hardware can run the official google OS, and people can test and dink with forks...
I call BS anyway. There are only 50, is it too much to have some schmoe simply look the damned tax up on a sheet of paper? WTF?
I think you lost the argument when you assume that every state has a sales tax. Several do not...
And that goes without county, city, regional, Transit authorities, school districts, etc all having other potential tax points...
No, the system didn't fully work. The TSA changed its "internal policies".. That is much different than a legal precedent, and of course, they can be changed right back, in a month. A person violating "internal policies" might get "disciplined" which is a long way from what's going to happen to someone for willfuly violating your rights. (And really, some of those minimum wage power tripping ego's really do need to get knocked back a few notches.) Also, if I'm not mistaken, pretty much all of the airports use Contractors to actually hire the agents. I'm not sure exactly how much training the employees get, since that would cut into the companies profits...
You know what I did last time my Cell company wanted to charge an upgrade fee? After 2 minutes of arguing it with the rep, I told him their competitor didn't charge "joining fees".. And then, (the key most people don't do after threatening) I told him I was going to a competitor because of it, walked out, went two stores down, and signed up with their competitor, and ported my number. (and really I like USCellular. I don't need data plans, and free incoming calls and texts is kinda nice!) If more people actually followed through, and told the company why they were leaving, those crappy fees would disapear.
You know, thats nice and all, but with a few blacklists, you are able to reduce your email traffic by a metric ton. When I worked at a place that had a T1, you could measure the email traffic in double digit percentages.. After adding blacklists, it dropped to around 1% of total traffic, since many of the blacklists stopped the email before sending the body of the message. Now they use a Barracuda, which has a managed blacklist, but still, huge cut in traffic, and they had a 300Mhz p2 desktop running as their mailserver for a while, and it ran postfix just dandy for the 75 full time employees.
No, not exchange. Blackberry servers.. If your company runs its own BES servers (often connected to your own exchange servers) then all phones have to use the "Enterprise" data plans for connecting to it. Otherwise, they can only see blackberries servers, and proxy your mail through them. So companies that want to actually encrypt, and force policies pay out the nose. I had heard from our mail admins that RIM actually demands that little feature, and gets a cut of the monthly extra.
Have you worked with Lenovo?
All of their websites that have any important (ie, not marketing) information, including drivers, SPM, and maintenance stuff are all hosted on IBM's servers. All my parts I order (I'm a certified lenovo tech) come from IBM. Most of the people that do R&D are at IBM. Seriously, put down your thinkpad, and go pickup an "Ideapad" laptop. Completely different, and completely crap. (My wife has a Y510). All lenovo actually does, it would appear, is Assemble the machines in China.
Not to mention, every time my "next day parts" take 3 days to arrive, I get excuses about how they figured out some of our laptops in Location X didn't get setup for onsite service, because there was a "glitch" between their systems and IBMs. (that seems to be our Lenovo Reps favorite excuse, and were really getting tired of it) We have been told it would take a week to get parts for next day service, since it was a holiday in china, and all the factories were closed. We wait quite a while when they run out of parts, and new ones have to come through customs.. (or when we order a new batch of systems on the deadlines their sales teams give us)
Lenovo bought the rights to Thinkpads, ThinkStations, and Thinkcentre's how many years ago, and they still rely on IBM like you wouldn't believe.
He argues that the problem is, the client doesn't usually hit the DNS server, the clients DNS server only does after it expires its own local cache.
Just because your ISP's DNS servers are sitting in LA, doesn't mean you are. You could be on Seattle, and using those DNS servers, or out in the world, on the work VPN, using their DNS server in downtown Chicago. Thats how many people get around regional restrictions now, in fact.
People have shoehorned DNS into something that it is neither Efficient, or designed to do.
Yes.
They are a very big division of GE, that makes equipment, like X-Ray machines, and software, such as electronic medical record software...
Interestingly enough, someone there has recently said that as profitable as GE Healthcare is, it doesn't bring in as much money as GE as a whole pays for healthcare for its employees.
I don't think you meant sequent, but they are a doubly bad example, since they were purchased by IBM for a very large sum, They had some very killer tech, and it was later incorporated into many of the Power Systems designs. IBM was desperate in those times to stop losing UNIX machines to Sun and HP.
Man, stop trying to buz-kill my rumor mill. Trolling slashdot is all I got anymore. :)
Explanation 3:
Apple has an atom device in the works.....
I did love how the article mentioned that they are working on installing more reliable equipment. WTF? 30 something years is not reliable enough? Are they wanting the next one to work for 50?
Yes, it would. In order to send an email from "FDIC.gov" they would have to hijack an account at FDIC.gov. This allows you to quickly trace back the problem.
With both Domain Keys, and SPF, you can specify which servers are "authorized" to send for your domain (or have a signed key) and mail relayed from other servers will show up as invalid, and be discarded or dumped to your spam box
Basically, the scammer/spammer would have to target the people they want to spoof first, instead of sending their legion of Zombied machines a list of Yahoo and hotmail accounts to spam from. Entirely possible, but would require a drasticly larger amount of work and technical ability to work.
Where I lived, they were affectionately known as "snooze bars"
If you don't have children, should you then pay a much higher rate for Social Security and Medicare, since you aren't bringing anyone into the world to cover your costs when your collecting it?
Things like SPF, and Domain Keys, and signed DNS would all prevent this. They would all help ensure that emails are coming from who they say they are coming from.
Instead of "blocking" things, why not force all government agencies to setup SPF and Domain keys, and maybe start signing the .GOV domain?
Exaclty.. the Clampi/iLomo virus is particularly nasty, and very hard to find even with antivirus software.
So the parent hasn't noticed a virus, which is alot different from being virus-free..
ZFS also can export as iSCSI, so really, it is doing 90% of what other SAN Solutions do. I just don't know much about its failover and clustering of a group of machines, (also known as network raid in some iscsi products)..
But yeah.. When I was shopping for a SAN, I was often asking vendors how their stuff compared performance and price/TB wise to a Sun 4500 server.. They would get very, very quiet.
A Vet turned History teacher had a saying on his door...
A computer with a bullet hole in it is a paperweight.
A map with a bullet hole in it is still a map.
I wonder if you can dump your rainbow tables to amazons simpleDB service? If I remember correctly, bandwidth between simpleDB and their virtual servers is free..
You know.. there are usually more than 2 people to vote for. Those people way at the bottom, that can't pay for slick advertising, consultants, and campaign signs in every lawn.
You might be surprised to know, that in many areas, those "other" parties are just a few votes away from getting local campaign funding just like the main 2 do, but they usually have to get a certain percentage of the popular vote in one election, to get campaign funding in the next one.
This is also the case with the presidential race. I voted for a 3rd party this year, not because I was "throwing away my vote" (as if that was possible, I just refused to vote for either of the two "lesser of evils") But because if enough people got fed up and did this, then suddenly, that 3rd party could get access to presidential campaign money from the federal government, get allowed into the now locked down presidential debates (remember when the league of women voters ran those? Right up till they invited Ross Perot to one)
Its not the regulations in the country, its the publishers.. Often times, a company will sell distribution rights to American shows to international companies.. For example, some other company might be broadcasting "Grey's Anatomy" (i know, cringe) in argentina, and they paid for the rights from the company that makes Greys Anatomy. Hulu doesn't own these rights in Argentina, the other company does.. Or sometimes, it gets even weirder, like how "The Office" is a US show, that is based on but wholly different than a British version of the same show. Or American Idol in the US is different than American Idol in the UK, except that Simon Cowell or whatever his name is in both.
They do some basic Geo-Location now...
When I watch ABC shows, my local ABC Affiliates banner shows up in the bottom left of the screen. if they could partner with Google (as in youtube) to do more 'local' advertising, it would be huge for them. They would really, really open up the market to small advertisers, instead of just nationwide ads now.
Yes, they are Far, far more accurate, and they work where there are no Cell Phone towers. They are also (usually) easy to extract the information from in standard forms and then use in your own applications (such as google earth pro) to make your own maps. If you hike the Pacific Crest trail, you will have GPS for almost all of it (if you really wanted to lug batteries). With a cell-phone, you are very lucky when you get coverage... Also, the older style, non-touchscreen GPS's can work for a week on a pair of AA Batteries.