I'd love to see the infrastructure design document from whomever is working at Solar Dynamics Observatory on what they are using for an online disk and long-term storage solution. If they are doing MOC, ingest and data processing/control all in one central location with was mentioned ITFA:
Specifically, NASA says the SDO will beam back 1.5 terabytes of data every day, 24 hours a day, seven days a week
Annually, at it's rawest data form, they house ~548TB (0.5 petabytes)!! I work for a NASA funded land processing project, and with our MODIS ingest from GSFC and ASTER pan ingest from Japan, in 11 years, we've accumulated close to 1.5PB of data. Of course, this is trimmed down and anything we need to generate other data product levels is starting to get housed long-term, but that's a HELL of a long of volume to consume and do fantastic projects with. Hurray for science once again. At least this NASA function still is getting money, eh?
Characteristically, firewalls are simply just that: a barrier to entry into a restricted, trusted area unless you're a loud to do so. So I'm confused why I would, first of all, want something 'automagically' configured for me in an enterprise setting? There's a very good reason your network admins at your workplace highly scrutinise over a single IP address: because it's important your infrastructure, IT/perimeter security standards and business, and it's their job to. If they aren't at least, on a high-level, asking you the 5-W's about why you need the rule(s) and you don't have answers, why should they even allow it?
What about tying a firewall into an authentication system so that when jdoe logs in, only then are the firewalls opened to pass her traffic?
That's what tiered firewall-VPN solutions are for.
What about managing distributed firewalls so that one repository of rules opens up your system's firewalls, the DMZ firewall, and the public firewall all at once?
Port knocking is pretty helpful in this, but can also bite your security-through-stealthy-obscurity right in the ass as well.
Can I take a Visio diagram, run it through a script, and get a list of firewall rules?
Visio diagrams are for documentation and suits. I couldn't hold any merit to that because firewall rules aren't just something you slap together (unless you're doing it for fun or at home or want Johnny Cracker hosting pr0n on an anonymous FTP on your computer at home). Flow-based solutions process rules in a top-down fashion, so it takes very good sets of eyes to develop rules that aren't going to be a liability, cause backdoors, trump existing rules and break security or flat out cause things to not work anymore in your production environment.
When I was in college back in 2000, a lot of my friends ended up getting work supplement jobs with 'Computing Services' on campus, doing the mundane desktop/printer/PC phone support to free up the campus sysadmin's time. Little did our close-nit group of friends find out the sysadmin's themselves had a huge storage server restricted by access-control lists that was loaded with mp3s, movies, dvdrips, ect. It was sort of a speak-easy to get access to it, but again, as the title states, when 'everyone' is in on piracy, from the campus nerd, to the academic probation athlete and all the way up to the Senior Sysadmin ranks, good luck with that policy. I know what our university policy was on piracy, but it was only on paper to make the board of regents happy; it's something that honestly could not be enforced.
I agree with that. I've noticed a big divide in developers of the 21st century coming out of college; there's a lot less focus on lower-level development and hardware interaction in schools/colleges than there were in the 80's and 90's. I think there's a more general focus on high level languages at best (e.g. python, web frameworks, al la.Net, java-this-and-that, ect.) that work 'on' an hardware/development architecture, not 'with' it.
I also wouldn't say there is a lack of support for the Linux kernel, but Linus is still a full-time driver of changes/additions in the kernel and with him, comes his ego and experience. Rightfully so, but we've seen it drive away brilliant maintainers and contributors in the past decade.
Uh, some of these gadgets and games have been out for 2-3+ years already under the Nintendo name and IA Labs is just now figuring out there could, potentially, maybe, a-slight-possibility, perhaps, kind-of, sort-of be a copyright infringement?
Regardless of IA Labs 'intent' to manufacture the Squeeze; I can't believe this holds any water at all as far as a copyright suit is concerned. If anything, I see IA Labs trying to get into profit on the exercise gaming market, not being stifled by it (e.g. Nintendo). Their demo of the Squeeze appeared, when? Circa 2008. Again, competing demo, not an undisclosed, super-duper market changing gaming gadget set to take over the world.
Yet another lost cause for MPAA and RIAA with failing to provide a legit and legal way on their own to produce and distribute digital content to the masses, so now you're going to hit up the government like every other 'Big Corporation' or 'Big Industry' has to help some failed quest.
Never once have I seen these two organizations do anything more than indictments, court battles and really lame 4 minute short films on why 'piracy of copyrighted material is bad'. Come up with a real solution. Software implementation will not even put a dent in this and it'll be worked around in 24 hours or less at best. More tax dollars at waste!
I think regardless of how useful or useless a game demo is, taking something away that's always been expected will always cause the general gaming community masses to complain and revolt about it. End users will see it as Big Corporation raping their middle-class-rut pocket books, piracy will spike for their games as the end user's way of "sticking it to the man".
I think if the Crytek gaming companies of the world do take all the money spend on marketing, packaging, R&D, escalated development cycle, ect. of promoting and distributing the demo and put the rest of that effort and money back into enhance the game in some way, then I think it's going to be a win. If it's not, then, it's just another lost cause in the gaming industry that's going to trickle down through the ranks.
Crytek can pad their story how they want; their motive of putting out a better, more thorough gaming product or a way to slash costs and blame the economy will eventually reveal itself in the end.
So this crazy dude goes to extreme lengths to get a husband put behind bars to have an adulterous relationship with the fellas wife? One of the big flaws was taking the hard drive out of the PC and mailing to the authorities. I think an anonymous tip would have been just fine.
Regardless, it's really amazing what mental states people can put themselves into and trick their own mind into thinking their crazy actions are somehow good in nature and worth pursuing. However, I can't help but realize the wife's involvement in this? Something she did or may have innocently done caused this guy to think there was something there... or maybe there was some under-the-table stuff happening. Too many fish in the sea to be doing that, IMHO.
I hear that level 30 Orc's put out the most on the first date. Every Mage's wet dream in their parent's basement eh?! There's no bondage like gruesome death and destruction on the battlefield.
Funny, I don't see a *single* mention of the following items related to TFA anywhere in your off-topic post: Solaris, OpenSolaris, Free, Oracle, Money...what point are you trying to prove?
Agreed to a very small extent. I can tell you're not a programmer, but more like bottom-line, border-line clueless manager type who fell into their management position by... accident?
Perhaps that developer could have used a third-party application, but someone who works both side of the ball as a developer-hat and a system administrator, I can tell you how frustrating it is when you get developers who like to use the "language-of-the-day" and then you (e.g. the sys-admin) have to support it on a COTS level, setup an secure environment for them to use it, field a myriad of questions when the developer who so longing wanted language/library/app/framework xyz but doesn't know two shakes how to use it other than "...it's cool."
I've seen quite a few posts about using `iptables` (which I'm 100% for and there were some pretty stout ideas that I hadn't thought of myself) however, regardless of running SSH on it's standard service port or picking an alternative, I didn't see a lot of comments about just implementing straight ACL's other on the tcpwrappers level in/etc/hosts.{allow,deny}. Everyone talks about blacklists, but I think it's import to have whitelists as well. A new method I've started to incorporate is a strict ACL whitelist `iptables` custom table along with using a custom port knocking sequence prior to opening up access for a particular window of time.
Last time Microsoft invested big into R&D in the recent couple of years, we got the Mojave Experiment Project, which was a brainwashing to non-tech people who didn't have a clue anyway. At least they are throwing their money towards a new tech buzz like cloud computing and dumping it into convincing people Vista is great, when it wasn't. First impressions are everything, we all know that. We all know by now throwing money at problems that can't be solved by money doesn't work. Maybe Microsoft will make a cloud that will float Vista away?
Not to be a novice and get your enterprise and common-sense hat on for a big event?
How to a proper WIFI site survery prior to deployment?
Not to make your own hacked-together setup (This isn't your mom's basement, buy/use legitimate, reputable and trusted equipment, cabling, software, ect.
Using SOHO/home networking equipment for THAT many potential users?
Learning is good and you were successful for the most part. Regardless of the downplay of comments you'll receive here on/. on what you did, it's what you took away from it and how to make it better for next year is what will make you great. That's how we all learn is by things like this. Anyone to admit otherwise is a more than likely a liar.
Agreed. Sounds like you need to make some business decisions. What's the business requirement to keep it around for your paying or, maybe, non-paying customers? If you've given the customer their order for your dataset and this end data is derived from layered metadata that can be re-processed in the form that they need it, I say archive the lowest level of your data so you can re-produce whatever type of data order you hand out to customers, and yes, charge them for it. The view you should take with your customers is: It's a mistake if you misplace (e.g. delete, remove, destroy) a couple gigs of data these days. If you misplace 2-3TB of data, then that should be chalked up as carelessness for being that stupid with that amount of data you depend on for your scientific application and you should pay to get it back or re-ordered.
I work as a contractor for the USGS and the projects I've been involved with host, archive and provide means for customers to access all our different satellite data products. We've got a Long-term archive method for tons of data products (digitally and tangible) and I can honestly tell you the first thing that always comes up is: how often will the data need to be accessed?
For the longest time (almost a decade) we used 3 big, STK tape silos for data archive and retrieval for custom orders. The problem behind that type of design is we used a archive in a completely wrong manner in the fact that we tried to use it as a archive and a quasi-online retrieval system into a caching filesystem. We had tape mount counts in the hundreds and thousands, constant mechanical tape issues because of the excessive use, ect. We actually decided to move it all to online storage using enterprise RAID (EMC Clarion) and moved to a small LTO-4 tape unit for almost permanent, maybe-once-in-a-great-while storage and the rest we leave completely on spinning disk and control the access to it via application layer network protocols as needed.
IMHO, I really think it's going to depend on the access frequency of your data. If that custom needs their data once, and maybe never again in case they lose it, put it on tape. If it's a requirement they can get the data from you any time they want and you've got the hardware and administrative resources, power and bandwidth, put it some RAID.
Oh, let's see. We moved a TON! Camp Anaconda, Camp Taji, BIAP (south end, but closer Camp Liberty if I recall), then finished way south at Camp Duke (north of Al Najaf) Used to dig the new dinning hall they put up at Camp Liberty.
When I was deployed to Iraq in '03 to early '05, I had to give up my IT job and go be a grunt for 18 months, and because I didn't have a MOS to prove my skills do some domineering douche E-6 admin, I got to convoy and do escort security. Being the convoy guy, you had access to the motor pool, so I'd get in a humvee once in awhile and do some war-driving on base with what little techie equipment I brought with me just for my own amusement. What amazed me what not only my findings themselves, but news that our officers in our unit would make the commo guys hook 802.11b/g routers up to NIPRnet (unsecured, mind you) so they could have free-range internet in their tents while the rest of us sucked it up in line for hours to get 5 minutes to write an e-mail and have some troll look over my shoulder to make sure I wasn't typing and "sensitive position information" in my e-mail (as if the Iraqi's don't know where all our bases is anyway! Isn't that why I got motor attacked twice a week?).
The point I'm trying to make is OPSEC in the military is a illusion and a joke and operate under the phrase "Do as I say, not as I do". The highest official is going to thrust down on the enlisted and preach being operationally secure, but it's the same guy who wanted NIRPnet broadcasted over an unsecure wifi router for 'convenience'.
I work for a government project in a Federally funded building right now and all I can say is... it sound promising. Common sense, proper planning and innovation gets put on the back burner for under-estimated budgets, bad trade studies, botched planning and wrong decisions being made by the wrong people. In the end, everything will still be money driven and the stove-pipe approach to IT infrastructure will remain the same: everyone will take their OWN budgeted money and set up their OWN infrastructure that will be completely different than project-A over project-B, so you'd spend double that to consolidate it. If you want to use some of project-A's setup (e.g. authentication, storage, ect.) because mis-managed budgets being a huge concern, project-B will get quoted a ridiculous amount of money to jump aboard to do it; much more, in-fact, than it would take to do a trade study, setup of a proof-of-concept test, purchase what you need and implement it. Thus that's how stove-piped approaches become what they are: a mess.
So long to the Bing hype done at TED this year. Good idea to incorporate user-submitted photos where the Google StreetView car is not welcomed or... hated. I think as long as the quality, angle and panorama of submitted images are scrutinized for the well-being and wealth of StreetView, it won't be very long before Google has image mapped everything with a road going through it.
...so what's the next best way to data mine people's personal vacation photography? Simply invite them to freely contribute to the bigger, shadowed cause. 0_0
Instead of the price fixing to get the most diluted depreciation value out of the plant and an unrealistic ROI based on trying to salvage existing old technology so it takes long to flood the market with new technology, maybe big corporation needs to look at other avenues like recycling their own product. Let's be honest, these big corps already provide us with the end product we want, they should take advantage of recouping some of their manufacturing costs by providing a place we can send in their own product so we can buy their new product. It'll make them cash and keep a customer base.
I willingly look for places to properly recycle my aging computer equipment and gadgets for free and they make 100% profit off whatever they can scrape off it. I was happy because I made my wife happy getting rid of stuff sitting around and the recyclers was happy they made some cash. Only makes sense instead of stifling the market.
If have the luxury of so many ISP choices. For some, it would still be three strikes.
Of course, if they said it only applied where the local ISP did NOT have a monopoly...
...which could almost be worse. It could essentially be turned into one strike and that's it if you only have one broadband carrier in your area and the rest are dial-up or some diluted broadband wireless service that does extensive bandwidth capping unless you're willing to pay the gobs of money to use it. Just going backwards in the 'high-speed-internet' days might be enough for people to change their ways. I know how frustrated I've become just checking my e-mail out of all things on a backup dial account on a land-line. It's nauseating to the point where I just say, "I can wait the weekend".
So it's really forcing the end user who gets stifled by the law, and fall under a circumstance such as that, to try and do the same file sharing pilfering with VERY less-than-desirable internet and bandwidth service conditions. Even piggy backing off of open wifi will only last for so long too... if that's the hidden agenda, it sounds plausible, but it's not the catch-all for people with a multitude of options once they get dumped by their current carrier.
To me, all that pony show was six days ago was a mock news and propaganda freak show. It just showed that congressional leadership and suit monkeys couldn't deal with the situation, it didn't say anything about whether our infrastructure or the closet tech experts in charge of it could effectively deal with it.
I also might add, "GNN" did a pretty poor job, too. I didn't catch all of it, but the little I did, it also showed me that there's also an inability on the news reporting front, too.
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I'd love to see the infrastructure design document from whomever is working at Solar Dynamics Observatory on what they are using for an online disk and long-term storage solution. If they are doing MOC, ingest and data processing/control all in one central location with was mentioned ITFA:
Specifically, NASA says the SDO will beam back 1.5 terabytes of data every day, 24 hours a day, seven days a week
Annually, at it's rawest data form, they house ~548TB (0.5 petabytes)!! I work for a NASA funded land processing project, and with our MODIS ingest from GSFC and ASTER pan ingest from Japan, in 11 years, we've accumulated close to 1.5PB of data. Of course, this is trimmed down and anything we need to generate other data product levels is starting to get housed long-term, but that's a HELL of a long of volume to consume and do fantastic projects with. Hurray for science once again. At least this NASA function still is getting money, eh?
Characteristically, firewalls are simply just that: a barrier to entry into a restricted, trusted area unless you're a loud to do so. So I'm confused why I would, first of all, want something 'automagically' configured for me in an enterprise setting? There's a very good reason your network admins at your workplace highly scrutinise over a single IP address: because it's important your infrastructure, IT/perimeter security standards and business, and it's their job to. If they aren't at least, on a high-level, asking you the 5-W's about why you need the rule(s) and you don't have answers, why should they even allow it?
What about tying a firewall into an authentication system so that when jdoe logs in, only then are the firewalls opened to pass her traffic?
That's what tiered firewall-VPN solutions are for.
What about managing distributed firewalls so that one repository of rules opens up your system's firewalls, the DMZ firewall, and the public firewall all at once?
Port knocking is pretty helpful in this, but can also bite your security-through-stealthy-obscurity right in the ass as well.
Can I take a Visio diagram, run it through a script, and get a list of firewall rules?
Visio diagrams are for documentation and suits. I couldn't hold any merit to that because firewall rules aren't just something you slap together (unless you're doing it for fun or at home or want Johnny Cracker hosting pr0n on an anonymous FTP on your computer at home). Flow-based solutions process rules in a top-down fashion, so it takes very good sets of eyes to develop rules that aren't going to be a liability, cause backdoors, trump existing rules and break security or flat out cause things to not work anymore in your production environment.
When I was in college back in 2000, a lot of my friends ended up getting work supplement jobs with 'Computing Services' on campus, doing the mundane desktop/printer/PC phone support to free up the campus sysadmin's time. Little did our close-nit group of friends find out the sysadmin's themselves had a huge storage server restricted by access-control lists that was loaded with mp3s, movies, dvdrips, ect. It was sort of a speak-easy to get access to it, but again, as the title states, when 'everyone' is in on piracy, from the campus nerd, to the academic probation athlete and all the way up to the Senior Sysadmin ranks, good luck with that policy. I know what our university policy was on piracy, but it was only on paper to make the board of regents happy; it's something that honestly could not be enforced.
I agree with that. I've noticed a big divide in developers of the 21st century coming out of college; there's a lot less focus on lower-level development and hardware interaction in schools/colleges than there were in the 80's and 90's. I think there's a more general focus on high level languages at best (e.g. python, web frameworks, al la .Net, java-this-and-that, ect.) that work 'on' an hardware/development architecture, not 'with' it.
I also wouldn't say there is a lack of support for the Linux kernel, but Linus is still a full-time driver of changes/additions in the kernel and with him, comes his ego and experience. Rightfully so, but we've seen it drive away brilliant maintainers and contributors in the past decade.
Let me reply to my own post to stop the pessimism against the post: #sed -i -r -e "s/copyright/patent/g" /my/post ...there. Fixed.
Uh, some of these gadgets and games have been out for 2-3+ years already under the Nintendo name and IA Labs is just now figuring out there could, potentially, maybe, a-slight-possibility, perhaps, kind-of, sort-of be a copyright infringement?
Regardless of IA Labs 'intent' to manufacture the Squeeze; I can't believe this holds any water at all as far as a copyright suit is concerned. If anything, I see IA Labs trying to get into profit on the exercise gaming market, not being stifled by it (e.g. Nintendo). Their demo of the Squeeze appeared, when? Circa 2008. Again, competing demo, not an undisclosed, super-duper market changing gaming gadget set to take over the world.
Yet another lost cause for MPAA and RIAA with failing to provide a legit and legal way on their own to produce and distribute digital content to the masses, so now you're going to hit up the government like every other 'Big Corporation' or 'Big Industry' has to help some failed quest.
Never once have I seen these two organizations do anything more than indictments, court battles and really lame 4 minute short films on why 'piracy of copyrighted material is bad'. Come up with a real solution. Software implementation will not even put a dent in this and it'll be worked around in 24 hours or less at best. More tax dollars at waste!
I think regardless of how useful or useless a game demo is, taking something away that's always been expected will always cause the general gaming community masses to complain and revolt about it. End users will see it as Big Corporation raping their middle-class-rut pocket books, piracy will spike for their games as the end user's way of "sticking it to the man".
I think if the Crytek gaming companies of the world do take all the money spend on marketing, packaging, R&D, escalated development cycle, ect. of promoting and distributing the demo and put the rest of that effort and money back into enhance the game in some way, then I think it's going to be a win. If it's not, then, it's just another lost cause in the gaming industry that's going to trickle down through the ranks.
Crytek can pad their story how they want; their motive of putting out a better, more thorough gaming product or a way to slash costs and blame the economy will eventually reveal itself in the end.
So this crazy dude goes to extreme lengths to get a husband put behind bars to have an adulterous relationship with the fellas wife? One of the big flaws was taking the hard drive out of the PC and mailing to the authorities. I think an anonymous tip would have been just fine.
Regardless, it's really amazing what mental states people can put themselves into and trick their own mind into thinking their crazy actions are somehow good in nature and worth pursuing. However, I can't help but realize the wife's involvement in this? Something she did or may have innocently done caused this guy to think there was something there... or maybe there was some under-the-table stuff happening. Too many fish in the sea to be doing that, IMHO.
I hear that level 30 Orc's put out the most on the first date. Every Mage's wet dream in their parent's basement eh?! There's no bondage like gruesome death and destruction on the battlefield.
Funny, I don't see a *single* mention of the following items related to TFA anywhere in your off-topic post: Solaris, OpenSolaris, Free, Oracle, Money ...what point are you trying to prove?
Agreed to a very small extent. I can tell you're not a programmer, but more like bottom-line, border-line clueless manager type who fell into their management position by... accident?
Perhaps that developer could have used a third-party application, but someone who works both side of the ball as a developer-hat and a system administrator, I can tell you how frustrating it is when you get developers who like to use the "language-of-the-day" and then you (e.g. the sys-admin) have to support it on a COTS level, setup an secure environment for them to use it, field a myriad of questions when the developer who so longing wanted language/library/app/framework xyz but doesn't know two shakes how to use it other than "...it's cool."
I've seen quite a few posts about using `iptables` (which I'm 100% for and there were some pretty stout ideas that I hadn't thought of myself) however, regardless of running SSH on it's standard service port or picking an alternative, I didn't see a lot of comments about just implementing straight ACL's other on the tcpwrappers level in /etc/hosts.{allow,deny}. Everyone talks about blacklists, but I think it's import to have whitelists as well. A new method I've started to incorporate is a strict ACL whitelist `iptables` custom table along with using a custom port knocking sequence prior to opening up access for a particular window of time.
Last time Microsoft invested big into R&D in the recent couple of years, we got the Mojave Experiment Project, which was a brainwashing to non-tech people who didn't have a clue anyway. At least they are throwing their money towards a new tech buzz like cloud computing and dumping it into convincing people Vista is great, when it wasn't. First impressions are everything, we all know that. We all know by now throwing money at problems that can't be solved by money doesn't work. Maybe Microsoft will make a cloud that will float Vista away?
Learning is good and you were successful for the most part. Regardless of the downplay of comments you'll receive here on /. on what you did, it's what you took away from it and how to make it better for next year is what will make you great. That's how we all learn is by things like this. Anyone to admit otherwise is a more than likely a liar.
Agreed. Sounds like you need to make some business decisions. What's the business requirement to keep it around for your paying or, maybe, non-paying customers? If you've given the customer their order for your dataset and this end data is derived from layered metadata that can be re-processed in the form that they need it, I say archive the lowest level of your data so you can re-produce whatever type of data order you hand out to customers, and yes, charge them for it. The view you should take with your customers is: It's a mistake if you misplace (e.g. delete, remove, destroy) a couple gigs of data these days. If you misplace 2-3TB of data, then that should be chalked up as carelessness for being that stupid with that amount of data you depend on for your scientific application and you should pay to get it back or re-ordered.
I work as a contractor for the USGS and the projects I've been involved with host, archive and provide means for customers to access all our different satellite data products. We've got a Long-term archive method for tons of data products (digitally and tangible) and I can honestly tell you the first thing that always comes up is: how often will the data need to be accessed?
For the longest time (almost a decade) we used 3 big, STK tape silos for data archive and retrieval for custom orders. The problem behind that type of design is we used a archive in a completely wrong manner in the fact that we tried to use it as a archive and a quasi-online retrieval system into a caching filesystem. We had tape mount counts in the hundreds and thousands, constant mechanical tape issues because of the excessive use, ect. We actually decided to move it all to online storage using enterprise RAID (EMC Clarion) and moved to a small LTO-4 tape unit for almost permanent, maybe-once-in-a-great-while storage and the rest we leave completely on spinning disk and control the access to it via application layer network protocols as needed.
IMHO, I really think it's going to depend on the access frequency of your data. If that custom needs their data once, and maybe never again in case they lose it, put it on tape. If it's a requirement they can get the data from you any time they want and you've got the hardware and administrative resources, power and bandwidth, put it some RAID.
You're just being a troll, right? Military Iraq Facilities. 'Nuff said.
Oh, let's see. We moved a TON! Camp Anaconda, Camp Taji, BIAP (south end, but closer Camp Liberty if I recall), then finished way south at Camp Duke (north of Al Najaf) Used to dig the new dinning hall they put up at Camp Liberty.
When I was deployed to Iraq in '03 to early '05, I had to give up my IT job and go be a grunt for 18 months, and because I didn't have a MOS to prove my skills do some domineering douche E-6 admin, I got to convoy and do escort security. Being the convoy guy, you had access to the motor pool, so I'd get in a humvee once in awhile and do some war-driving on base with what little techie equipment I brought with me just for my own amusement. What amazed me what not only my findings themselves, but news that our officers in our unit would make the commo guys hook 802.11b/g routers up to NIPRnet (unsecured, mind you) so they could have free-range internet in their tents while the rest of us sucked it up in line for hours to get 5 minutes to write an e-mail and have some troll look over my shoulder to make sure I wasn't typing and "sensitive position information" in my e-mail (as if the Iraqi's don't know where all our bases is anyway! Isn't that why I got motor attacked twice a week?).
The point I'm trying to make is OPSEC in the military is a illusion and a joke and operate under the phrase "Do as I say, not as I do". The highest official is going to thrust down on the enlisted and preach being operationally secure, but it's the same guy who wanted NIRPnet broadcasted over an unsecure wifi router for 'convenience'.
I work for a government project in a Federally funded building right now and all I can say is... it sound promising. Common sense, proper planning and innovation gets put on the back burner for under-estimated budgets, bad trade studies, botched planning and wrong decisions being made by the wrong people. In the end, everything will still be money driven and the stove-pipe approach to IT infrastructure will remain the same: everyone will take their OWN budgeted money and set up their OWN infrastructure that will be completely different than project-A over project-B, so you'd spend double that to consolidate it. If you want to use some of project-A's setup (e.g. authentication, storage, ect.) because mis-managed budgets being a huge concern, project-B will get quoted a ridiculous amount of money to jump aboard to do it; much more, in-fact, than it would take to do a trade study, setup of a proof-of-concept test, purchase what you need and implement it. Thus that's how stove-piped approaches become what they are: a mess.
So long to the Bing hype done at TED this year. Good idea to incorporate user-submitted photos where the Google StreetView car is not welcomed or... hated. I think as long as the quality, angle and panorama of submitted images are scrutinized for the well-being and wealth of StreetView, it won't be very long before Google has image mapped everything with a road going through it.
...so what's the next best way to data mine people's personal vacation photography? Simply invite them to freely contribute to the bigger, shadowed cause. 0_0
Instead of the price fixing to get the most diluted depreciation value out of the plant and an unrealistic ROI based on trying to salvage existing old technology so it takes long to flood the market with new technology, maybe big corporation needs to look at other avenues like recycling their own product. Let's be honest, these big corps already provide us with the end product we want, they should take advantage of recouping some of their manufacturing costs by providing a place we can send in their own product so we can buy their new product. It'll make them cash and keep a customer base.
I willingly look for places to properly recycle my aging computer equipment and gadgets for free and they make 100% profit off whatever they can scrape off it. I was happy because I made my wife happy getting rid of stuff sitting around and the recyclers was happy they made some cash. Only makes sense instead of stifling the market.
If have the luxury of so many ISP choices. For some, it would still be three strikes. Of course, if they said it only applied where the local ISP did NOT have a monopoly...
...which could almost be worse. It could essentially be turned into one strike and that's it if you only have one broadband carrier in your area and the rest are dial-up or some diluted broadband wireless service that does extensive bandwidth capping unless you're willing to pay the gobs of money to use it. Just going backwards in the 'high-speed-internet' days might be enough for people to change their ways. I know how frustrated I've become just checking my e-mail out of all things on a backup dial account on a land-line. It's nauseating to the point where I just say, "I can wait the weekend".
So it's really forcing the end user who gets stifled by the law, and fall under a circumstance such as that, to try and do the same file sharing pilfering with VERY less-than-desirable internet and bandwidth service conditions. Even piggy backing off of open wifi will only last for so long too... if that's the hidden agenda, it sounds plausible, but it's not the catch-all for people with a multitude of options once they get dumped by their current carrier.
To me, all that pony show was six days ago was a mock news and propaganda freak show. It just showed that congressional leadership and suit monkeys couldn't deal with the situation, it didn't say anything about whether our infrastructure or the closet tech experts in charge of it could effectively deal with it.
I also might add, "GNN" did a pretty poor job, too. I didn't catch all of it, but the little I did, it also showed me that there's also an inability on the news reporting front, too.