"Hide your location, lose protections guaranteed to those in America"
Seriously, is this somehow unexpected? If they're monitoring stuff they believe is from people outside the USA, and you go out of your way to mask your location, why would it surprise you that if they don't know where someone is, they treat them with the lowest level of trust? Isn't that the default security policy for from every IT vendor since the beginning of time?
When I type or paste a URL into an Outlook message, or MS Word, or Excel, or PowerPoint, Microsoft automatically converts that URL into a hyperlink even if I didn't ask it to do so. Does that mean Microsoft is guilty of patent infringement?
You told us who you are but you reduced your requirements to "a webhost". That isn't enough information for us to make recommendations.
If you are concerned about scalability, consider using cloud resources to run your site. They are designed to scale to extremely high levels.
For example, you can host static web content directly on Amazon S3 with no need for a 3rd party webhost. You pay for what you use in terms of storage and bandwidth. You say your load may be 1000 concurrent users, which should not be a problem for a decently managed dedicated server, but I would venture to say S3 can scale out of the box to many orders of magnitude of that number. I.E. if you need 5 million people to be able to click a link at the same time and not break your site, then S3 would be a good option to consider.
A lot of content is dynamic for no other reason than nobody ever thought about why it couldn't be static. At work, I constantly deal with people that want to use dynamic content types such as aspx/php/etc when the page does not need to be dynamic at all. They want to spend $$$$ on servers to make sure we can handle load, then when I tell them to stick the form on S3 and pay for only what they use they look like deer in headlights.
10 GbE support on motherboards is not what's needed to increase adoption. Decent prices on 10GbE switches is what's needed. For small companies, 10 GbE is just not practical. You can't get any kind of decent port density without a chassis based switch and they're priced out of our reach. Even if I just wanted 12-24 10 GbE ports, there's not really a cost effective way to get that. Sure, I could look at a Nexus 3000 series at a cost of $30k + SFPs, but then I've got probably $40-45k in a single switch when it's all said and done. Talk to me when I can get that for $10-15k and I might buy one.
Create an adapter that physically transforms RJ-45 to some obscure connector format, then epoxy that into the ethernet ports on the devices. Then you keep the adapter. Anytime someone wants to connect the device to the network, they have to come track down the adapter from you.
Realistically, just produce documentation showing you warned IT that this would create a shitstorm and take it to the big boss to show how IT dropped the ball. The problem should solve itself at that point.
Get a job at another company that uses that stuff. You can do helpdesk or junior network admin with the experience you have now. Offer to help out the database team with basic tasks, if their workload is anything like our team's is, they will not turn you down. After you build up some experience there is often room for career advancement.
I could probably almost double my salary if I moved to an app development or dba role, but the headaches those guys have to put up with just makes it not worth it to me. At least at our company. Engineering just seems to be a lot more by the book.
DS3 signalling isn't going anywhere either; it's the way of muxing a bunch of T1s or SLA guaranteed customer circuits for circuit protection and mapping across the transport network infrastructure. A bunch of DS0s become DS1s; a bunch of DS1s become DS3s; a bunch of DS3s become OC-xxx; a bunch of those so-called obsolete T1s form the backbone of a telco transport network.
I won't claim to be intimately aware of telco operations, but it's my understanding that more and more telcos are ditching channelized copper on the backbone and migrating toward IP based solutions over fiber because they're easier to work with. If copper will still be here in 15 or 20 years I don't see it in the backbone, I see it as the last mile.
You seem to be focused on BRI ISDN which is what is used by those you referenced (TV remotes, voice actors, etc). It is an extremely low bandwidth connection (128 Kbps) but "it works" and is probably not going away anytime soon. PRI is probably much more prevalent. PRI is what I would consider the T1 of ISDN. It is commonly used for enterprise PBX systems, and I definitely don't see it going away anytime soon. The only other realistic option I see at present is SIP, but even then unless it's delivered over fiber SIP services are still probably going to come in over some kind of copper medium (be it T1, etc). Some companies are moving to fiber, but there is usually considerably more cost associated with bringing fiber to the premises as compared to copper which likely is already on premise.
My company has fiber on premise for IP, but we still have PRIs from the LEC for our voice service. Any time you bring voice in over an IP transport (as in SIP), you have to make sure the IP network has proper QoS, etc whereas PRI "just works". PRI is usually more expensive, but not overly so. When we replaced our PBX a few years ago we considered SIP, but when we presented the various options to the powers that be, they chose to stick with PRI because it has a proven track record whereas SIP was just gaining traction in the market.
I think in 15 years you will definitely see fiber steal a large market share of those customers that are currently using copper, but I think there will still be plenty of copper around.
Ok, maybe I'm missing the point, but isn't it a lot easier to build stuff to survive a hurricane or tornado if it's underground? That would be my assumption based on the notion of a storm cellar or other type of "bunker" being constructed underground. So, why not just build datacenters 10-20 feet underground? Essentially you would treat it like a basement, but without a building on top of it. I could see flooding as being an issue, but couldn't you just excavate another 30-40 feet below the floor of the datacenter and give water somewhere to go? The water would have to fill up that space before it became a concern to you, and I would assume that if you designed it in such a way that you never expect water to get down there in the first place then if you put pumps to deal with any water that does come in it shouldn't be too hard for them to keep up with any water that does.
What about using a terminal server for RS232 stuff? There are plenty of them out there that are designed to give you a console connection to network gear. Seems like you might be able to hack something like this to make it work. Essentially you would load a driver on a PC that makes it think the serial port on the terminal server is a local RS232 port.
Even old computers will still run plenty of good games...Quake, Warcraft, Halflife, Unreal Tournament, etc.
Quake and Quake 2 in particular made it easy to create your own mods. Why not spend time hacking on the games and the rest playing the games? Great way to keep it interesting and fun.
If your webserver firewall allows outbound connections to anything you can't easily provide an explanation for then you need to be sent to a remedial network security course. All our devs hate me because everytime they deploy something to production it inevitably breaks because they didn't submit a request to have the necessary ports opened in the firewall, but I'd rather deal with devs hating me than me hating devs because their insecure apps got us hacked.
That, to me, defeats the entire point. Why even give the machines network adapters if there's nothing for them to talk to? It'd be much better in terms of experience, learning, practicality and fun if you just setup an isolated network for all of the student machines and create your own little Internet. That gives them the ability to setup client/server apps with other students and deal with security issues, just like they'd have to do in real life.
Setting everyone up by themself might let them do some basic lessons, but why teach them something they'll probably never experience in the real world?
That used to be the norm and they still do it. When my grandmother passed, we had to go through the process of shutting down all her utility accounts and discovered that she had rented a phone from them back in the 70s and was still doing so. Granted, this was back maybe 6-7 years ago, but I have no reason to believe they've stopped renting phones since then.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I think this is precisely why contracts exist...so people can't commit to something, not deliver and expect to still get paid. If they refuse to fix bugs, have someone else do it, then take the dev to court and get damages in the amount of your costs of having someone else fix their bugs.
From the article, one of Syria's tld nameservers is unreachable. That shoudln't affect in any way the ability of folks in Syria to access any website that doesn't have a.sy extension, and it also shouldn't affect the rest of the world's ability to access any websites in Syria that have another tld. The headline is misleading.
This is akin to saying that I've fallen off the Internet if the DNS servers for my domain name are offline. While you can't get to my website, you can certainly get to other websites on the same server if they're using other DNS servers, and I can still continue to work normally because my ability to resolve my own hostnames is not a requirement for me to access the rest of the Internet.
The nod to section 31 was nice, after all I think this is perhaps the first time something created on DS9 was mentioned in a feature film. The problem I have with it is that all they did is name drop it. They mention the name a couple times then they're done with it. I think they could have tied it in a bit better, after all there have been multiple full episodes of background on 31, so there's plenty of content to tie in.
Similarly, I really enjoyed the scene toward the end of the movie where Spock pummels Khan. They tell you Khan is genetically engineered and reference him as a "super man", so between that and taking down a squad of Klingons single-handedly you get the idea that he's not to be messed with. From Trek dogma, we know that Vulcans are about 3-4x as strong as normal humans, so that means Spock and Khan are probably pretty close in terms of physical strength, but we've seen before when Vulcans lose their emotional control they're not to be messed with. So, I really enjoyed seeing Spock take Khan down a peg or two. That just reaffirms my belief that Zachary Quinto was the perfect casting choice for that role.
Most folks that think about this kind of stuff can do it themselves and would be disappointed with what furniture manufacturers think you want.
Instead of drilling lots of holes in your furniture, why not look at an inductive charging solution for phones? That would be much less obtrusive. For other devices the answers are going to depend totally on what kind of furniture you have, but in general it shouldn't be too hard to snake a laptop cord up through the bottom of a couch so it can be hidden under or behind a cushion.
Yeah, Apple should have thought of putting remote wipe functionality in the hands of an admin who doesn't have the end user's Apple ID credentials, and enabled them to do it in a way that leaves the user's personal data intact and only wipes corporate data. If they had, 90% of the folks using 3rd party MDM software probably wouldn't be.
I guess I'm not seeing where the unfair competition is coming from? So Tesla sells direct and everyone else doesn't and that apparently gives them an advantage somehow...why is that an issue that government or any regulating body should care about?
So, I'm going to extend this by analogy so it's really simple to understand, maybe someone can forward it to the cronies in NC. I'm going to start selling cars. I'm going to get a crack design team to come up with the best designs and build stuff that people will really like, but I'm only going to have a one day work week and sell them on Tuesdays, the rest of the week I'll be closed. Then I'll demand regulations be put in place to force the other car companies to stop selling cars on days other than Tuesday because it gives them a huge competitive advantage over me.
The point...why should the government care that other auto companies decided not to sell direct to the public? Tesla comes along and proves that it's a workable arrangement so the automakers go complaining about unfair advantage. What's stopping you from selling direct? Nothing is. They just don't like having to adapt to change, so they go to the cronies and try to put a stop to it. Just like the music companies when iTunes first hit the scene. Just like the movie companies when Netflix hit the scene. Just like the cable companies when the DVR hit the scene.
Get over it. Life and innovation happen. Sticking your head in the sand and trying to pass laws to stifle your compeition is not the answer. It just makes you look like a shortsighted moron.
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"Hide your location, lose protections guaranteed to those in America"
Seriously, is this somehow unexpected? If they're monitoring stuff they believe is from people outside the USA, and you go out of your way to mask your location, why would it surprise you that if they don't know where someone is, they treat them with the lowest level of trust? Isn't that the default security policy for from every IT vendor since the beginning of time?
When I type or paste a URL into an Outlook message, or MS Word, or Excel, or PowerPoint, Microsoft automatically converts that URL into a hyperlink even if I didn't ask it to do so. Does that mean Microsoft is guilty of patent infringement?
You told us who you are but you reduced your requirements to "a webhost". That isn't enough information for us to make recommendations.
If you are concerned about scalability, consider using cloud resources to run your site. They are designed to scale to extremely high levels.
For example, you can host static web content directly on Amazon S3 with no need for a 3rd party webhost. You pay for what you use in terms of storage and bandwidth. You say your load may be 1000 concurrent users, which should not be a problem for a decently managed dedicated server, but I would venture to say S3 can scale out of the box to many orders of magnitude of that number. I.E. if you need 5 million people to be able to click a link at the same time and not break your site, then S3 would be a good option to consider.
A lot of content is dynamic for no other reason than nobody ever thought about why it couldn't be static. At work, I constantly deal with people that want to use dynamic content types such as aspx/php/etc when the page does not need to be dynamic at all. They want to spend $$$$ on servers to make sure we can handle load, then when I tell them to stick the form on S3 and pay for only what they use they look like deer in headlights.
10 GbE support on motherboards is not what's needed to increase adoption. Decent prices on 10GbE switches is what's needed. For small companies, 10 GbE is just not practical. You can't get any kind of decent port density without a chassis based switch and they're priced out of our reach. Even if I just wanted 12-24 10 GbE ports, there's not really a cost effective way to get that. Sure, I could look at a Nexus 3000 series at a cost of $30k + SFPs, but then I've got probably $40-45k in a single switch when it's all said and done. Talk to me when I can get that for $10-15k and I might buy one.
Create an adapter that physically transforms RJ-45 to some obscure connector format, then epoxy that into the ethernet ports on the devices. Then you keep the adapter. Anytime someone wants to connect the device to the network, they have to come track down the adapter from you.
Realistically, just produce documentation showing you warned IT that this would create a shitstorm and take it to the big boss to show how IT dropped the ball. The problem should solve itself at that point.
Until you told us you weren't in engineering. My advice, let them deal with it instead of trying to force a solution on them.
Get a job at another company that uses that stuff. You can do helpdesk or junior network admin with the experience you have now. Offer to help out the database team with basic tasks, if their workload is anything like our team's is, they will not turn you down. After you build up some experience there is often room for career advancement.
I could probably almost double my salary if I moved to an app development or dba role, but the headaches those guys have to put up with just makes it not worth it to me. At least at our company. Engineering just seems to be a lot more by the book.
DS3 signalling isn't going anywhere either; it's the way of muxing a bunch of T1s or SLA guaranteed customer circuits for circuit protection and mapping across the transport network infrastructure. A bunch of DS0s become DS1s; a bunch of DS1s become DS3s; a bunch of DS3s become OC-xxx; a bunch of those so-called obsolete T1s form the backbone of a telco transport network.
I won't claim to be intimately aware of telco operations, but it's my understanding that more and more telcos are ditching channelized copper on the backbone and migrating toward IP based solutions over fiber because they're easier to work with. If copper will still be here in 15 or 20 years I don't see it in the backbone, I see it as the last mile.
You seem to be focused on BRI ISDN which is what is used by those you referenced (TV remotes, voice actors, etc). It is an extremely low bandwidth connection (128 Kbps) but "it works" and is probably not going away anytime soon. PRI is probably much more prevalent. PRI is what I would consider the T1 of ISDN. It is commonly used for enterprise PBX systems, and I definitely don't see it going away anytime soon. The only other realistic option I see at present is SIP, but even then unless it's delivered over fiber SIP services are still probably going to come in over some kind of copper medium (be it T1, etc). Some companies are moving to fiber, but there is usually considerably more cost associated with bringing fiber to the premises as compared to copper which likely is already on premise.
My company has fiber on premise for IP, but we still have PRIs from the LEC for our voice service. Any time you bring voice in over an IP transport (as in SIP), you have to make sure the IP network has proper QoS, etc whereas PRI "just works". PRI is usually more expensive, but not overly so. When we replaced our PBX a few years ago we considered SIP, but when we presented the various options to the powers that be, they chose to stick with PRI because it has a proven track record whereas SIP was just gaining traction in the market.
I think in 15 years you will definitely see fiber steal a large market share of those customers that are currently using copper, but I think there will still be plenty of copper around.
Ok, maybe I'm missing the point, but isn't it a lot easier to build stuff to survive a hurricane or tornado if it's underground? That would be my assumption based on the notion of a storm cellar or other type of "bunker" being constructed underground. So, why not just build datacenters 10-20 feet underground? Essentially you would treat it like a basement, but without a building on top of it. I could see flooding as being an issue, but couldn't you just excavate another 30-40 feet below the floor of the datacenter and give water somewhere to go? The water would have to fill up that space before it became a concern to you, and I would assume that if you designed it in such a way that you never expect water to get down there in the first place then if you put pumps to deal with any water that does come in it shouldn't be too hard for them to keep up with any water that does.
What about using a terminal server for RS232 stuff? There are plenty of them out there that are designed to give you a console connection to network gear. Seems like you might be able to hack something like this to make it work. Essentially you would load a driver on a PC that makes it think the serial port on the terminal server is a local RS232 port.
We have a computer lab with ~30 computers
Even old computers will still run plenty of good games...Quake, Warcraft, Halflife, Unreal Tournament, etc.
Quake and Quake 2 in particular made it easy to create your own mods. Why not spend time hacking on the games and the rest playing the games? Great way to keep it interesting and fun.
If your webserver firewall allows outbound connections to anything you can't easily provide an explanation for then you need to be sent to a remedial network security course. All our devs hate me because everytime they deploy something to production it inevitably breaks because they didn't submit a request to have the necessary ports opened in the firewall, but I'd rather deal with devs hating me than me hating devs because their insecure apps got us hacked.
That, to me, defeats the entire point. Why even give the machines network adapters if there's nothing for them to talk to? It'd be much better in terms of experience, learning, practicality and fun if you just setup an isolated network for all of the student machines and create your own little Internet. That gives them the ability to setup client/server apps with other students and deal with security issues, just like they'd have to do in real life.
Setting everyone up by themself might let them do some basic lessons, but why teach them something they'll probably never experience in the real world?
WIPO != Government
That used to be the norm and they still do it. When my grandmother passed, we had to go through the process of shutting down all her utility accounts and discovered that she had rented a phone from them back in the 70s and was still doing so. Granted, this was back maybe 6-7 years ago, but I have no reason to believe they've stopped renting phones since then.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I think this is precisely why contracts exist...so people can't commit to something, not deliver and expect to still get paid. If they refuse to fix bugs, have someone else do it, then take the dev to court and get damages in the amount of your costs of having someone else fix their bugs.
From the article, one of Syria's tld nameservers is unreachable. That shoudln't affect in any way the ability of folks in Syria to access any website that doesn't have a .sy extension, and it also shouldn't affect the rest of the world's ability to access any websites in Syria that have another tld. The headline is misleading.
This is akin to saying that I've fallen off the Internet if the DNS servers for my domain name are offline. While you can't get to my website, you can certainly get to other websites on the same server if they're using other DNS servers, and I can still continue to work normally because my ability to resolve my own hostnames is not a requirement for me to access the rest of the Internet.
The nod to section 31 was nice, after all I think this is perhaps the first time something created on DS9 was mentioned in a feature film. The problem I have with it is that all they did is name drop it. They mention the name a couple times then they're done with it. I think they could have tied it in a bit better, after all there have been multiple full episodes of background on 31, so there's plenty of content to tie in.
Similarly, I really enjoyed the scene toward the end of the movie where Spock pummels Khan. They tell you Khan is genetically engineered and reference him as a "super man", so between that and taking down a squad of Klingons single-handedly you get the idea that he's not to be messed with. From Trek dogma, we know that Vulcans are about 3-4x as strong as normal humans, so that means Spock and Khan are probably pretty close in terms of physical strength, but we've seen before when Vulcans lose their emotional control they're not to be messed with. So, I really enjoyed seeing Spock take Khan down a peg or two. That just reaffirms my belief that Zachary Quinto was the perfect casting choice for that role.
Doesn't the federal government enjoy the privilege of being one of the few entities that cannot be sued unless they allow you to sue them?
Most folks that think about this kind of stuff can do it themselves and would be disappointed with what furniture manufacturers think you want.
Instead of drilling lots of holes in your furniture, why not look at an inductive charging solution for phones? That would be much less obtrusive. For other devices the answers are going to depend totally on what kind of furniture you have, but in general it shouldn't be too hard to snake a laptop cord up through the bottom of a couch so it can be hidden under or behind a cushion.
Why is this news?
Potentially, depending on how the MDM software handles these things.
Good MDM software will containerize corporate data and put it in a 3rd party mail app which won't be backed up by iCloud.
Yeah, Apple should have thought of putting remote wipe functionality in the hands of an admin who doesn't have the end user's Apple ID credentials, and enabled them to do it in a way that leaves the user's personal data intact and only wipes corporate data. If they had, 90% of the folks using 3rd party MDM software probably wouldn't be.
I guess I'm not seeing where the unfair competition is coming from? So Tesla sells direct and everyone else doesn't and that apparently gives them an advantage somehow...why is that an issue that government or any regulating body should care about?
So, I'm going to extend this by analogy so it's really simple to understand, maybe someone can forward it to the cronies in NC. I'm going to start selling cars. I'm going to get a crack design team to come up with the best designs and build stuff that people will really like, but I'm only going to have a one day work week and sell them on Tuesdays, the rest of the week I'll be closed. Then I'll demand regulations be put in place to force the other car companies to stop selling cars on days other than Tuesday because it gives them a huge competitive advantage over me.
The point...why should the government care that other auto companies decided not to sell direct to the public? Tesla comes along and proves that it's a workable arrangement so the automakers go complaining about unfair advantage. What's stopping you from selling direct? Nothing is. They just don't like having to adapt to change, so they go to the cronies and try to put a stop to it. Just like the music companies when iTunes first hit the scene. Just like the movie companies when Netflix hit the scene. Just like the cable companies when the DVR hit the scene.
Get over it. Life and innovation happen. Sticking your head in the sand and trying to pass laws to stifle your compeition is not the answer. It just makes you look like a shortsighted moron.
Google should run an ad campaign about this.