I think this would had been great opportunity for Google to do their usual push marketing. Just put olympics streaming on their homepage and require Chrome to view it (like they do on several other HTML5 sites). But they most likely lost the bidding war. There's no doubt they tried tho.
If you've used the NBC olympics streaming, you'll notice that all of the video players are provided by youtube. Google's there, they just seems to have gone the corporate partnership route.
But even if they did get laptops inside the convention to connect to their AP, it would still require the person using the laptop to setup forwarding between the wired NIC and the Wifi interface.
While this all could be accomplished, it doesn't seem as big of a threat as the article makes it out to be. Not to mention the fact that someone who goes to the trouble to setup a AP and try to get onto the internal network could probably just make their way inside and connect to the wired network. Plus, why would they give the random laptops being plugged into the wired network access to sensitive information?
I know a couple people who work for UPS sorting boxes and I've heard some bad stories. For example when one of them hit his leg he grabbed a box of florescent light bulbs and threw it across the room where it crumpled. Needless to say the bulbs were all destroyed. His boss just shook his head at him... If your box happens to come at the wrong time...
Simple, I have an email adress brandon@work.address.com but I want to send someone an email when I'm at home. My ISP's SMTP server's won't relay for me because it's not a verizon email address and the work SMTP server won't relay because I'm not on the local LAN. The only option to send email is to send via my own mail server. An option would be to have verizon forward email from local IP's regardless of IP but if they do that, why bother blocking port 25?
I don't think Verizon is blocking port 25 either. I run my own mail server both for receiving and sending mail without any problems.
Still, this is a strong argument for getting one friend to get a T1, then everyone chips in to pay for the T1 and roll their own DSL
connections.
Would splitting a T1 though homegrown DSL be feasible. It seems to me that it would take a lot of friends to pay the costs of a T1. By the time you split the T1 enough ways to pay for it would there be enough bandwidth left? Not to mention the equipment costs. I can't imagine that a DSLAM is cheap. Would be cool to do though.
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I think this would had been great opportunity for Google to do their usual push marketing. Just put olympics streaming on their homepage and require Chrome to view it (like they do on several other HTML5 sites). But they most likely lost the bidding war. There's no doubt they tried tho.
If you've used the NBC olympics streaming, you'll notice that all of the video players are provided by youtube. Google's there, they just seems to have gone the corporate partnership route.
Technically, that would still be an intangible asset.
But even if they did get laptops inside the convention to connect to their AP, it would still require the person using the laptop to setup forwarding between the wired NIC and the Wifi interface.
While this all could be accomplished, it doesn't seem as big of a threat as the article makes it out to be. Not to mention the fact that someone who goes to the trouble to setup a AP and try to get onto the internal network could probably just make their way inside and connect to the wired network. Plus, why would they give the random laptops being plugged into the wired network access to sensitive information?
Why so many duplicate stories lately? Yesterday there was the one about the GPS messages and now this is the same as this story
I know a couple people who work for UPS sorting boxes and I've heard some bad stories. For example when one of them hit his leg he grabbed a box of florescent light bulbs and threw it across the room where it crumpled. Needless to say the bulbs were all destroyed. His boss just shook his head at him... If your box happens to come at the wrong time...
Simple, I have an email adress brandon@work.address.com but I want to send someone an email when I'm at home. My ISP's SMTP server's won't relay for me because it's not a verizon email address and the work SMTP server won't relay because I'm not on the local LAN. The only option to send email is to send via my own mail server. An option would be to have verizon forward email from local IP's regardless of IP but if they do that, why bother blocking port 25?
I don't think Verizon is blocking port 25 either. I run my own mail server both for receiving and sending mail without any problems.
Still, this is a strong argument for getting one friend to get a T1, then everyone chips in to pay for the T1 and roll their own DSL connections.
Would splitting a T1 though homegrown DSL be feasible. It seems to me that it would take a lot of friends to pay the costs of a T1. By the time you split the T1 enough ways to pay for it would there be enough bandwidth left? Not to mention the equipment costs. I can't imagine that a DSLAM is cheap. Would be cool to do though.
Solaris 2.6 NFS Server on a network I use has an uptime of 212 days. Find me an NT machine that can get that.