"There is two things wrong with this, the POTS copper system ISN'T redundant, they have a single pair of copper going onto a single card in an exchange (CO)."
though I'm not Australian (and in fact just learned about the barbaric practice of billing per call there) I can attest to the redundancy of Signal System 7. SS7, though not at all redundant in the local/last loop, is fully redundant at the CO level. if one carrier decided to take it's gear down for firmware upgrades/etc, the other providers with peering in the Local District are still able to signal calls (most often emergency only, as most governments require by law).
unfortunately, I've not had the 'pleasure' of dealing with telco's down under, so I have no evidence or proof that they operate on the SS7 standard. if not, I think it's time for somebody to put up a real telco there, eh?
I wonder if this won't lead to wider adoption of solar panels and batteries? as the prices continue to drop, I'm sure people would love the ability to store days worth of power they generate them selves.
am I the only one thinking that if you're publishing a grant application on Thomas Aquinas, maybe you should get a fucking life and not worry about where it's published?
Anyone who can tie their own shoes and really understands why a knot stays tied can set up a Windows server.
FTFY
Seriously, though I COMPLETELY AGREE that this is one of the easiest things to setup in the modern world, I can think off the top of my head of 20 people I know in the "IT Industry" that can't perform this basic task.
You know, that's a very good point. the only way to NOT track somebody, IS TO TRACK THEM. unless you join a group of people, when all YOUR information only is removed, people will be able to generally infer what you do online, by comparing the results of the blanked tracking data with everyone else's.
by stating that you don't want to be tracked, you make yourself MORE identifiable.
except small campus radio networks. which will be a large number of students interests. (and also a key market segment)
until the IPv6 internet starts the dawn of mandatory multicast, a radio antenna will always cost less than an internet connection for >50 continuous users.
personally, when moving multi GB files over VPN links (often VM's between sites for testing) I find the remote sites with T1's unbearable. (13,583 seconds, or 226 min, or 3.76 hours to move 20GB via a T1) we've partnered up with a local ISP and started moving customers over to 100Mbps pipes on the private network, and 10Mbit per site gateways for general access. (204 seconds, or 3.4 min, or 0.06 hours to move 20GB via a 100Mbit line)
I completely agree that for 90%+ of the people that use the internet, they just don't care. they need to be able to get: a random email providers inbox page, youtube.com/, theweathernetwork.com and likely MSNBC/whatever news site comes up on IE by default these days at a "reasonable speed". As long as they don't have to sit and wait for youtube video's to buffer, they feel their internet is "fast enough".
I must admit that I'm a little surprised that nobody's put together an internet package that optimise's Advertisement request speed. that would single handedly speed up internet connections for 90%+ of the "average users".
for every major carrier that I've worked with, filtering isn't optional, it's mandatory.
at the tier one level, Qwest, AT&T, Sprint and L3 all dampen their allowable routes to what they know the immediate peers will advertise. at tier two, there will be many smaller ISP's who will haply pass routes to whomever wants to advertise them, but is not going to be listening to BGP messages on customer facing ports. (unless that customer has already made an agreement with that peer to make an AS entry on both sides)
depends on how you like to manage your equipment. most large companies tend to do it manually, while smaller businesses like to do it automatically.
On BSD and cisco routers, it's easy to assign the metrics by hand. some ISP's will even buy a lower metric from you (forcing more traffic off their links)
the trusting nature of BGP? if you inject bad advertisement for too long, you'll get marked as damaged, and the BGP AS will begin converging around you. (cutting off any private subscribers you maintain as they no longer have valid routes back to them from the internet.)
in current BGP, you don't GET trusted, you BUILD trust. you're established a very high metric (or weight) for distance routing initially, and as you carry traffic, (or as more and more traffic originates from your network from your subscribers) your metric will be lowered overtime, moving greater and greater volumes of traffic over your infrastructure.
Fake it? Not in the last five years!
unless you know of some BGP peers that refuse the standard peering protocol, 1) they are required to only listen to routes from known surrounding peers, 2) will not be listening to what's being advertised by your router unless you have instructed them ahead of time what AS you manage and what prefixes you will be advertising to them.
if for some strange reason, you manage to be adjacent to a backbone CORE router, and wanted to spend a few years moving traffic from core's to edges of the internet, you could start injecting routes for a short span of time after having been trusted and your metric's lowered, (at some point BGP will fail to converge and your advertisements will begin being ignored by the AS)
for research purposes here in Canada, we have access to a major core router, and are able to inject routes to get traffic routed through a particular peer for a few minutes at a time. wirecapping the lines at that router, we can then monitor for organisational security compliance for penetration testing. (you'd be surprised how often usernames and passwords get sent in clear text, or how often people THINK intra building traffic is being encrypted via a VPN only to find out it's badly midconfigured.)
I too am far from all knowing on the ins and outs of global BGP, but every peering agreement I've read (from about twelve countries and almost a hundred cities) have always been the same. "you are required to listen to ASxxxxx for advertisments for this super block, you are required to listen to these private peers with multi-homing agreements, you are required to advertise with the AS number assigned to you only, you are required to advertise only the prefixes you privately manage, and to contact and update the peers directly adjacent to you if assigned a new superblock. etc"
only to find out that somebody holds a patent for "a governing body imposing rules to prevent the clarification of non-obvious". if you browse the patent list long enough, I'd bet somebody tried filing that at some point.:P
have you ever owned a RIM device?
they do a pretty good job of security. but yes, if you have a blackberry with an e-mail account from your provider, the mailstore is at RIM. as much as you may not like RIM keeping your keys, they might need to get into your mailbox to repair/troubleshoot/help you.
if you really want secure BB's, host a BES server, and you control the end to end encryption between phones and server. (and if you do so in india, you STILL need to provide a method to the government to allow workers access to all your mailboxes. it's a punishable offense (read they will come take your equipment, some of your people, and hand the business itself massive fines) to withhold ANY information from them for any reason.)
until you get into the shoes of a company that sells equipment designed for deep packet inspection to a country that uses it to oppress it's people, then get sued by your own country for selling something that's perfectly legal in the country you sold it in.
unfortunately, you have to respect EVERYONE these days. or somebody will get a treaty signed that makes what you did illegal, and try to sue you for it anyways.
what were the stats? 84% of all porn sites are based out of the united states? over 20K people a minute were accessing porn during the 9-5 workday, most of them being american?
america needs to grow the fuck up. I know, I know, it hurts that england didn't like you for all those years, but tough it out, keep your chin up, and get over the obsession with keeping everything behind closed doors.
sometimes I think that americans just LIKE to hide things. as if it somehow makes them feel more important for keeping secrets. sheesh!
Sex is also not 'good'. It can lead to either. Sex can bring joy and happiness, or abortion and AIDS. Monogamous relationships are the only safe environment for sexual activity, Sex is also not 'good'. It can lead to either. Sex can bring joy and happiness, or abortion and AIDS. Monogamous relationships are the only safe environment for sexual activity,
I'd ensue with a long string of $chr(72) + $chr(65) + $chr(32)'s, but I expect it'll serve little good.
I'm sorry, but the vast majority of people on the earth, would disagree with you there. if sex were not a good thing: we as a race would cease to exist. point and fact.
just because people feel that they're "above nature" and somehow we need to "take the moral high ground" does not mean that we are not animals like the rest of the world. it's not up to us to "protect" our children from the rest of the world, it's up to us to make sure they have what it takes to survive in it.
you explicitly mention "common sense" yet fail to give reference. there is no "global common sense". to a child growing up in a country that needs to be taught to steal food to survive: it's not common sense to treat peoples property as private. to a child growing up with a fairly high chance of not surviving, it's not "common sense" to prevent yourself from enjoying what little life they may have left.
sex is a fact of life. if people would stop treating it like it's some sort of taboo, and start educating people about what it it, how it works, what to watch out for, and that YOU CAN TRUST PEOPLE! (even those that you don't have sex with!) maybe we'd continue to advance as a people, instead of tearing ourself apart trying to hide what we are.
or does ANYBODY else in the world really love their kids enough to WANT to spend more time with them?
instead of just leaving them behind and abandoning them to a TV, maybe somebody might want to take responsibility for their parenting and spend some time raising their kids?
Oh, right. I forgot. apparently people want to have kids, but want everyone else in the world to do all the work for them. it's funny how people have completely lost the motivation to be responsible for their actions anymore.
sure, because all we need is more kids growing up repressed about how Horrible sex is, and how they should never have sex, and how dirty anything sexual is.
people need to face the fact that sex is part of life. it's not going to make a kid any less human to know what sex looks like. hell, if you approach the topic with them in an open fashion, they might even LIKE the idea in the future.
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"There is two things wrong with this, the POTS copper system ISN'T redundant, they have a single pair of copper going onto a single card in an exchange (CO)."
though I'm not Australian (and in fact just learned about the barbaric practice of billing per call there) I can attest to the redundancy of Signal System 7. SS7, though not at all redundant in the local/last loop, is fully redundant at the CO level. if one carrier decided to take it's gear down for firmware upgrades/etc, the other providers with peering in the Local District are still able to signal calls (most often emergency only, as most governments require by law).
unfortunately, I've not had the 'pleasure' of dealing with telco's down under, so I have no evidence or proof that they operate on the SS7 standard. if not, I think it's time for somebody to put up a real telco there, eh?
I wonder if this won't lead to wider adoption of solar panels and batteries? as the prices continue to drop, I'm sure people would love the ability to store days worth of power they generate them selves.
if you want to play with peoples toys, you have to play by their rules.
1) sign up for an account.
2) login over the next few days, try the features.
it's not brain surgery. hell, it's hardly even rocket science!
am I the only one thinking that if you're publishing a grant application on Thomas Aquinas, maybe you should get a fucking life and not worry about where it's published?
Anyone who can tie their own shoes and really understands why a knot stays tied can set up a Windows server.
FTFY
Seriously, though I COMPLETELY AGREE that this is one of the easiest things to setup in the modern world, I can think off the top of my head of 20 people I know in the "IT Industry" that can't perform this basic task.
it's funny what passes for a "tech" these days.
You know, that's a very good point. the only way to NOT track somebody, IS TO TRACK THEM. unless you join a group of people, when all YOUR information only is removed, people will be able to generally infer what you do online, by comparing the results of the blanked tracking data with everyone else's.
by stating that you don't want to be tracked, you make yourself MORE identifiable.
I'd give the full body scan away for free. the ice cream would be a damn nice "icing on the cake".
just stop using the free services provided on the internet, and nobody will want your data anyways.
how is it news to people that somebody want's something in exchange for what they give away?
except small campus radio networks. which will be a large number of students interests. (and also a key market segment)
until the IPv6 internet starts the dawn of mandatory multicast, a radio antenna will always cost less than an internet connection for >50 continuous users.
that doesn't mean there won't be at some point!
or you could always just buy two. one for games, one for linux.
alien concept, I know!
as a canadian, I second that statement. sometimes, they just make NO sense.
personally, when moving multi GB files over VPN links (often VM's between sites for testing) I find the remote sites with T1's unbearable. (13,583 seconds, or 226 min, or 3.76 hours to move 20GB via a T1) we've partnered up with a local ISP and started moving customers over to 100Mbps pipes on the private network, and 10Mbit per site gateways for general access. (204 seconds, or 3.4 min, or 0.06 hours to move 20GB via a 100Mbit line)
I completely agree that for 90%+ of the people that use the internet, they just don't care. they need to be able to get: a random email providers inbox page, youtube.com/, theweathernetwork.com and likely MSNBC/whatever news site comes up on IE by default these days at a "reasonable speed". As long as they don't have to sit and wait for youtube video's to buffer, they feel their internet is "fast enough".
I must admit that I'm a little surprised that nobody's put together an internet package that optimise's Advertisement request speed. that would single handedly speed up internet connections for 90%+ of the "average users".
What "big boys" are you talking about?
for every major carrier that I've worked with, filtering isn't optional, it's mandatory.
at the tier one level, Qwest, AT&T, Sprint and L3 all dampen their allowable routes to what they know the immediate peers will advertise. at tier two, there will be many smaller ISP's who will haply pass routes to whomever wants to advertise them, but is not going to be listening to BGP messages on customer facing ports. (unless that customer has already made an agreement with that peer to make an AS entry on both sides)
depends on how you like to manage your equipment. most large companies tend to do it manually, while smaller businesses like to do it automatically. On BSD and cisco routers, it's easy to assign the metrics by hand. some ISP's will even buy a lower metric from you (forcing more traffic off their links)
the trusting nature of BGP? if you inject bad advertisement for too long, you'll get marked as damaged, and the BGP AS will begin converging around you. (cutting off any private subscribers you maintain as they no longer have valid routes back to them from the internet.)
in current BGP, you don't GET trusted, you BUILD trust. you're established a very high metric (or weight) for distance routing initially, and as you carry traffic, (or as more and more traffic originates from your network from your subscribers) your metric will be lowered overtime, moving greater and greater volumes of traffic over your infrastructure.
Fake it? Not in the last five years!
unless you know of some BGP peers that refuse the standard peering protocol, 1) they are required to only listen to routes from known surrounding peers, 2) will not be listening to what's being advertised by your router unless you have instructed them ahead of time what AS you manage and what prefixes you will be advertising to them.
if for some strange reason, you manage to be adjacent to a backbone CORE router, and wanted to spend a few years moving traffic from core's to edges of the internet, you could start injecting routes for a short span of time after having been trusted and your metric's lowered, (at some point BGP will fail to converge and your advertisements will begin being ignored by the AS)
for research purposes here in Canada, we have access to a major core router, and are able to inject routes to get traffic routed through a particular peer for a few minutes at a time. wirecapping the lines at that router, we can then monitor for organisational security compliance for penetration testing. (you'd be surprised how often usernames and passwords get sent in clear text, or how often people THINK intra building traffic is being encrypted via a VPN only to find out it's badly midconfigured.)
I too am far from all knowing on the ins and outs of global BGP, but every peering agreement I've read (from about twelve countries and almost a hundred cities) have always been the same. "you are required to listen to ASxxxxx for advertisments for this super block, you are required to listen to these private peers with multi-homing agreements, you are required to advertise with the AS number assigned to you only, you are required to advertise only the prefixes you privately manage, and to contact and update the peers directly adjacent to you if assigned a new superblock. etc"
only to find out that somebody holds a patent for "a governing body imposing rules to prevent the clarification of non-obvious". if you browse the patent list long enough, I'd bet somebody tried filing that at some point. :P
ummmnm, what?
have you ever owned a RIM device?
they do a pretty good job of security. but yes, if you have a blackberry with an e-mail account from your provider, the mailstore is at RIM. as much as you may not like RIM keeping your keys, they might need to get into your mailbox to repair/troubleshoot/help you.
if you really want secure BB's, host a BES server, and you control the end to end encryption between phones and server. (and if you do so in india, you STILL need to provide a method to the government to allow workers access to all your mailboxes. it's a punishable offense (read they will come take your equipment, some of your people, and hand the business itself massive fines) to withhold ANY information from them for any reason.)
until you get into the shoes of a company that sells equipment designed for deep packet inspection to a country that uses it to oppress it's people, then get sued by your own country for selling something that's perfectly legal in the country you sold it in.
unfortunately, you have to respect EVERYONE these days. or somebody will get a treaty signed that makes what you did illegal, and try to sue you for it anyways.
Here here!
what were the stats? 84% of all porn sites are based out of the united states? over 20K people a minute were accessing porn during the 9-5 workday, most of them being american?
america needs to grow the fuck up. I know, I know, it hurts that england didn't like you for all those years, but tough it out, keep your chin up, and get over the obsession with keeping everything behind closed doors.
sometimes I think that americans just LIKE to hide things. as if it somehow makes them feel more important for keeping secrets. sheesh!
Sex is also not 'good'. It can lead to either. Sex can bring joy and happiness, or abortion and AIDS. Monogamous relationships are the only safe environment for sexual activity, Sex is also not 'good'. It can lead to either. Sex can bring joy and happiness, or abortion and AIDS. Monogamous relationships are the only safe environment for sexual activity,
I'd ensue with a long string of $chr(72) + $chr(65) + $chr(32)'s, but I expect it'll serve little good.
I'm sorry, but the vast majority of people on the earth, would disagree with you there. if sex were not a good thing: we as a race would cease to exist. point and fact.
just because people feel that they're "above nature" and somehow we need to "take the moral high ground" does not mean that we are not animals like the rest of the world. it's not up to us to "protect" our children from the rest of the world, it's up to us to make sure they have what it takes to survive in it.
you explicitly mention "common sense" yet fail to give reference. there is no "global common sense". to a child growing up in a country that needs to be taught to steal food to survive: it's not common sense to treat peoples property as private. to a child growing up with a fairly high chance of not surviving, it's not "common sense" to prevent yourself from enjoying what little life they may have left.
sex is a fact of life. if people would stop treating it like it's some sort of taboo, and start educating people about what it it, how it works, what to watch out for, and that YOU CAN TRUST PEOPLE! (even those that you don't have sex with!) maybe we'd continue to advance as a people, instead of tearing ourself apart trying to hide what we are.
or does ANYBODY else in the world really love their kids enough to WANT to spend more time with them?
instead of just leaving them behind and abandoning them to a TV, maybe somebody might want to take responsibility for their parenting and spend some time raising their kids?
Oh, right. I forgot. apparently people want to have kids, but want everyone else in the world to do all the work for them. it's funny how people have completely lost the motivation to be responsible for their actions anymore.
http://www.dreadcentral.com/story/7-deadly-sinns-pg13-ification
there a list of a few.
sure, because all we need is more kids growing up repressed about how Horrible sex is, and how they should never have sex, and how dirty anything sexual is.
people need to face the fact that sex is part of life. it's not going to make a kid any less human to know what sex looks like. hell, if you approach the topic with them in an open fashion, they might even LIKE the idea in the future.
I know though, that's just horrible!