Just because they're switches doesn't make them omniscient.
You can get MAC addresses by hearing broadcasts, so finding them is easy. As for overridding the switches MAC table, you can sometimes flood them with a ton of traffic (with a flood of bogus MAC addresses), which can allow the spoofed one to be right "right" port.
Don't think that just because you have a switched environment you're safe from spoofing.
As long as the gross number of transactions grows, nothing. They have no motivation to, since they make money off of all transactions, including fraudulent ones.
If the gross number of transactions were to fall and it was linked to perceptions of fraud, they might, but how likely is that?
The guys at the top certainly understand that they aren't buying software, they're buying an operational methodology.
I sometimes wonder if they even realize *what* they're buying, other than the fact that they're "buying", it's six figures plus, and they've got job security for the next N years, or until the project blows up.
To me, TV has become an activity I can pursue when/if I want to. "What's on TV" means "What's on Tivo?"
Simply skipping commercials isn't what it's about; in fact, I sometimes forget what I'm watching is on Tivo and not live, and I end up watching:30 or so of a commercial break before "Duh, I can FF it".
They are expensive and can require changes to business processes that make a particular company's operation less efficient overall.
Great message overall. What I find amusing about the one-size-fits-all finance/ERP/etc applications is that they essentially force an operational model on organizations who don't modify the software.
I have yet to find a PHB who even questions the intelligence of modifying a business process to meet the needs of a software application. In my mind, the entire scope of your business contains your competitive advantages, and this includes business processes. Do they know if the processes dictated by some one-size-fits-all application are better than theirs? Who designed the processes that software ultimately dictates? Does it unwisely level the playing field by matching business processes with everyone else using the same application?
Sure, there are some businesses with bad/inefficient processes that will improve by adopting processes dicated by applications, but there have to be some that suffer, and this seems to be the stock horror story I run into when I hear line-level workers trying to explain how why their service is worse than it used to be -- "the new software" makes their job harder and makes for more cumbersome processes that they have to follow to do their jobs. Some of this is simply labor groans, but much of it seems real.
If a biological monocultures are bad, and software ones too, why would business process monocultures be bad as well?
These articles show up from time to time here, and they never seem to materialize into real products, at least not at a price point that anyone outside of the Military-Industrial Complex could afford.
I don't follow CPU development beyond what I need for my day job and what I read here (how's that for pathetic?), but do multi-core CPUs necessarily mean SMP on (in?) a single slab or does it more often mean more pseudo-SMP of the hyperthreading variety?
It'd be pretty amsuing to read, and helpful to figure out if rendering or other problems (like the recent rash of 503s) has anything to do with me or if everyone gets them.
I agree that many camera designs are too small. I think this one is pretty close to optimal, though I wouldn't want it much smaller.
I guess it depends on what you're doing with it; if you're using it as a real camera doing something seriously "photographic" with it above and beyond the typical novice camera use, the smallness would be a problem.
If you're like me, just shooting random crap with it and carrying it around, the size is a blessing, not a curse.
It would be nice, even with what I want it for, for them to supply an accessory dongle, though. There's two I/O doors and only one set of AV inputs, forcing you to decide between IN and OUT assignments via the menu system. A dongle with proper IN, OUT, DV and USB ports would be nice.
This shows how little you fanboys get it. The goal of IBM's Linux campaign is to get you locked into IBM proprietary middleware software. (Because people were getting wise to their OS lockin.)
That may be, but doesn't IBM get more out of it from support contracts than middleware licenses? It strikes me that IBM's Linux strategy could be focused more at MS than Sun or other big(ger) iron competitors.
MS solutions are probably lapping at the lower end of IBM's AIX business and have a ton of ease of use as well as cheaper hardware. PHBs associate this with lower TCO (MCSEs vs. AIX admins), but they hate taking it in the ass on MS licensing costs.
IBM works this to their advantage by selling Linux as essentially free from licensing costs and their services group as the support and maintenance backstop they feel they get from MS.
That some enterprising IBM salesdroids have figured out how to work in high-markup licensed software isn't surprising, but it seems orthagonal to their Linux strategy.
I guess its not bad, I haven't really done much with it in low light yet. I've BS'd around a tad with the "MagicPix" mode, which is the very-low-light mode and I wasn't totally overwhelmed -- it's not exactly night vision, but I haven't ever tried Sony's Nightshot, either.
I think for pretty basic camcorder usage (family stuff, trips, whatever) it will be fine, and the 3xCCD ought to give me superior picture quality.
I like the built-in still mode, too, that's kind of handy when you want a picture but don't want to shoot video.
I just replaced my Dual P3-667 system with a P4-3.2. I priced out going dual P4 Xeon or Opteron, but it was *so much* more expensive to get even close single-CPU performance out of a dualie system than just going semi-high end P4.
I liked my dual system's ability to remain responsive even when loaded, but I found that there was little that took advantage of dual processing and as the system aged, single-CPU performance became pretty important in a new system.
It's too bad Intel and AMD don't make their plain desktop processors capable of at least 2 way, and saved the MP "tax" for 3+ CPU systems. Hopefully the next time I go through this exercise we'll have dual-core CPUs available that give the advantages of dual CPUs without all the added cost.
Panasonic: The only cheap 3CCD camcorders on the market is one of theirs -- I think the low-end one costs around $800. I can't say much about the quality, though I do find their ergonomics to be awkward -- the cameras are too small, and you have to unplug the battery and put it in a separate charger. To me this is an utterly ridiculous sort of design flaw.
I just bought my first camcorder for shooting stupid family things, and I bought the low-end 3CCD Panasonic PV-GS120 ($5xx, Newegg) and so far it's been great. I don't think the ergonomics are bad at all, I have fairly average sized hands and the buttons are all easily accessed with one hand in the shooting position. It is small, but that makes it ideal for carrying around your neck without feeling like you're lugging a fscking camcorder around.
The seperate charger for the battery I think is a great idea! I can keep one battery charging in the house or wherever, and use a different battery for the camcorder itself. There's two annoying things about the charger setup, though -- the passthrough adapter for the camera that's part of the charger keeps the battery in the charger from charging as you use it, and there should be some way to "unplug" the charging block and plug the AC adapter directly into the camera's seperate power port. Beyond that, though, I like that I don't have to plug the *camera* in to charge the battery.
For $550, it has great picture quality and *fabulous* color.
If I was attempting to use $third_world_labor to accomplish $dubious_goal via the internet, the first thing I would try to do is get at least a/24 that's based (via CIDR, anyway) in the US and then IPSec tunnel that block to my offices overseas.
That way, at least to the drones that pay attention to geographic-based IP routing, all my stuff would appear to be coming from the US.
Oh come on, that's a cheap criticism and you know it.
The guy was presumably a full-time student, in a foreign country, away from his family and support system -- might these demands or limitations limit his ability to do the job well? I can only imagine how well I'd perform doing a moderately complex job while being a full-time student a half a world away.
My guess is that the parent poster recognizing that these are both meaningful and valid considerations, but the Diversity Police would rather that you not consider them because it works against their goals, hence he self-censored himself.
That's kind of my biggest worry about it; that it will just become abandoned and not get any feature enhancements or maybe even any bug fixes. It was a gift, so the money factor doesn't really matter to me, but it's pretty bound to Apple's software and support for longevity.
Do you get to sit in first class? Do they put an armed guard on you or transport you in irons to keep you from being unruly?
As far as the airfare goes, I'd wager that if you were at risk of arrest in the US when you returned, I'll bet they add the cost of 2-3 short-notice, one-way first class tickets to whatever fine you might be eligible for. The multiples covering the cost of extra seats or guards required to keep you from being a dick during the flight.
If you were just being deported and weren't subject to arrest in the US upon return, I'd bet they'd just jail you until you agreed to pay for the airfare. I'm not sure what they do for people who can't pay; perhaps there's some reciprocal agreement with the deportee's country to pay for their indigent deportees airfare.
There could also be an arrangement with the airlines where they agree to haul indigents home as part of their landing/flyover/airport fees (leaving them free to collect for the airfare in the deportee's home country). And don't some countries require you to deposit funds to get into the country? Money could come from there.
All in all, one of those annoying questions you never hear answered.
Sure, you can reduce all political conflicts from ideological conflicts about the arrangement of human affairs to nothing more than conflicts among elites for power and control, but it begs the question as to why ideologies were developed at all and assumes that no elites subscribe to even partial ideological motivations.
This is hard for me to accept, and it also presumes that ideologies only exist to fool the masses to the extent that they are necessary for elites to pursue power.
What the parent poster said is true of China as a country, as well. Just substitute "corporate" with "communist party" and it remains true.
What really scares me is how alike the modern western corporation and totalitarian communist governments have become. It used to be that they were actually opposed -- the communists took anti-capitalism, pro-worker philosophy seriously, and corporations at least paid lip service to entrepreneurialism and freedom.
Now the corporations lie and propagandize in ways that would make Goebbels or Stalin blush.
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Just because they're switches doesn't make them omniscient.
You can get MAC addresses by hearing broadcasts, so finding them is easy. As for overridding the switches MAC table, you can sometimes flood them with a ton of traffic (with a flood of bogus MAC addresses), which can allow the spoofed one to be right "right" port.
Don't think that just because you have a switched environment you're safe from spoofing.
My network just assumes that everybody is a stranger, and anything of value refuses to talk to anyone without a known MAC address.
You mean they willingly talk to any old spoofed MAC address?
As long as the gross number of transactions grows, nothing. They have no motivation to, since they make money off of all transactions, including fraudulent ones.
If the gross number of transactions were to fall and it was linked to perceptions of fraud, they might, but how likely is that?
The guys at the top certainly understand that they aren't buying software, they're buying an operational methodology.
I sometimes wonder if they even realize *what* they're buying, other than the fact that they're "buying", it's six figures plus, and they've got job security for the next N years, or until the project blows up.
To me, TV has become an activity I can pursue when/if I want to. "What's on TV" means "What's on Tivo?"
:30 or so of a commercial break before "Duh, I can FF it".
Simply skipping commercials isn't what it's about; in fact, I sometimes forget what I'm watching is on Tivo and not live, and I end up watching
They are expensive and can require changes to business processes that make a particular company's operation less efficient overall.
Great message overall. What I find amusing about the one-size-fits-all finance/ERP/etc applications is that they essentially force an operational model on organizations who don't modify the software.
I have yet to find a PHB who even questions the intelligence of modifying a business process to meet the needs of a software application. In my mind, the entire scope of your business contains your competitive advantages, and this includes business processes. Do they know if the processes dictated by some one-size-fits-all application are better than theirs? Who designed the processes that software ultimately dictates? Does it unwisely level the playing field by matching business processes with everyone else using the same application?
Sure, there are some businesses with bad/inefficient processes that will improve by adopting processes dicated by applications, but there have to be some that suffer, and this seems to be the stock horror story I run into when I hear line-level workers trying to explain how why their service is worse than it used to be -- "the new software" makes their job harder and makes for more cumbersome processes that they have to follow to do their jobs. Some of this is simply labor groans, but much of it seems real.
If a biological monocultures are bad, and software ones too, why would business process monocultures be bad as well?
These articles show up from time to time here, and they never seem to materialize into real products, at least not at a price point that anyone outside of the Military-Industrial Complex could afford.
What's next for REAL data storage?
You left out the best-forgotten TokenTalk!
We bought a card once for a box that went to a client site circa '98. I remember it being pretty expensive, but most Token Ring stuff was.
I don't follow CPU development beyond what I need for my day job and what I read here (how's that for pathetic?), but do multi-core CPUs necessarily mean SMP on (in?) a single slab or does it more often mean more pseudo-SMP of the hyperthreading variety?
It'd be pretty amsuing to read, and helpful to figure out if rendering or other problems (like the recent rash of 503s) has anything to do with me or if everyone gets them.
In my IE on XP I just get a dark blue screen filling the rendering area.
I agree that many camera designs are too small. I think this one is pretty close to optimal, though I wouldn't want it much smaller.
I guess it depends on what you're doing with it; if you're using it as a real camera doing something seriously "photographic" with it above and beyond the typical novice camera use, the smallness would be a problem.
If you're like me, just shooting random crap with it and carrying it around, the size is a blessing, not a curse.
It would be nice, even with what I want it for, for them to supply an accessory dongle, though. There's two I/O doors and only one set of AV inputs, forcing you to decide between IN and OUT assignments via the menu system. A dongle with proper IN, OUT, DV and USB ports would be nice.
This shows how little you fanboys get it. The goal of IBM's Linux campaign is to get you locked into IBM proprietary middleware software. (Because people were getting wise to their OS lockin.)
That may be, but doesn't IBM get more out of it from support contracts than middleware licenses? It strikes me that IBM's Linux strategy could be focused more at MS than Sun or other big(ger) iron competitors.
MS solutions are probably lapping at the lower end of IBM's AIX business and have a ton of ease of use as well as cheaper hardware. PHBs associate this with lower TCO (MCSEs vs. AIX admins), but they hate taking it in the ass on MS licensing costs.
IBM works this to their advantage by selling Linux as essentially free from licensing costs and their services group as the support and maintenance backstop they feel they get from MS.
That some enterprising IBM salesdroids have figured out how to work in high-markup licensed software isn't surprising, but it seems orthagonal to their Linux strategy.
I guess its not bad, I haven't really done much with it in low light yet. I've BS'd around a tad with the "MagicPix" mode, which is the very-low-light mode and I wasn't totally overwhelmed -- it's not exactly night vision, but I haven't ever tried Sony's Nightshot, either.
I think for pretty basic camcorder usage (family stuff, trips, whatever) it will be fine, and the 3xCCD ought to give me superior picture quality.
I like the built-in still mode, too, that's kind of handy when you want a picture but don't want to shoot video.
I just replaced my Dual P3-667 system with a P4-3.2. I priced out going dual P4 Xeon or Opteron, but it was *so much* more expensive to get even close single-CPU performance out of a dualie system than just going semi-high end P4.
I liked my dual system's ability to remain responsive even when loaded, but I found that there was little that took advantage of dual processing and as the system aged, single-CPU performance became pretty important in a new system.
It's too bad Intel and AMD don't make their plain desktop processors capable of at least 2 way, and saved the MP "tax" for 3+ CPU systems. Hopefully the next time I go through this exercise we'll have dual-core CPUs available that give the advantages of dual CPUs without all the added cost.
Panasonic: The only cheap 3CCD camcorders on the market is one of theirs -- I think the low-end one costs around $800. I can't say much about the quality, though I do find their ergonomics to be awkward -- the cameras are too small, and you have to unplug the battery and put it in a separate charger. To me this is an utterly ridiculous sort of design flaw.
I just bought my first camcorder for shooting stupid family things, and I bought the low-end 3CCD Panasonic PV-GS120 ($5xx, Newegg) and so far it's been great. I don't think the ergonomics are bad at all, I have fairly average sized hands and the buttons are all easily accessed with one hand in the shooting position. It is small, but that makes it ideal for carrying around your neck without feeling like you're lugging a fscking camcorder around.
The seperate charger for the battery I think is a great idea! I can keep one battery charging in the house or wherever, and use a different battery for the camcorder itself. There's two annoying things about the charger setup, though -- the passthrough adapter for the camera that's part of the charger keeps the battery in the charger from charging as you use it, and there should be some way to "unplug" the charging block and plug the AC adapter directly into the camera's seperate power port. Beyond that, though, I like that I don't have to plug the *camera* in to charge the battery.
For $550, it has great picture quality and *fabulous* color.
If I was attempting to use $third_world_labor to accomplish $dubious_goal via the internet, the first thing I would try to do is get at least a /24 that's based (via CIDR, anyway) in the US and then IPSec tunnel that block to my offices overseas.
That way, at least to the drones that pay attention to geographic-based IP routing, all my stuff would appear to be coming from the US.
Oh come on, that's a cheap criticism and you know it.
The guy was presumably a full-time student, in a foreign country, away from his family and support system -- might these demands or limitations limit his ability to do the job well? I can only imagine how well I'd perform doing a moderately complex job while being a full-time student a half a world away.
My guess is that the parent poster recognizing that these are both meaningful and valid considerations, but the Diversity Police would rather that you not consider them because it works against their goals, hence he self-censored himself.
That's kind of my biggest worry about it; that it will just become abandoned and not get any feature enhancements or maybe even any bug fixes. It was a gift, so the money factor doesn't really matter to me, but it's pretty bound to Apple's software and support for longevity.
..and what video system are they putting in it?
I guess maybe they deport you to your country of citizenship if they can't determine your country of origin.
I'd expect Canada would have some worker-friendly laws about piss testing employees. Given the availability of BC bud, I'd hope so at least.
Do you get to sit in first class? Do they put an armed guard on you or transport you in irons to keep you from being unruly?
As far as the airfare goes, I'd wager that if you were at risk of arrest in the US when you returned, I'll bet they add the cost of 2-3 short-notice, one-way first class tickets to whatever fine you might be eligible for. The multiples covering the cost of extra seats or guards required to keep you from being a dick during the flight.
If you were just being deported and weren't subject to arrest in the US upon return, I'd bet they'd just jail you until you agreed to pay for the airfare. I'm not sure what they do for people who can't pay; perhaps there's some reciprocal agreement with the deportee's country to pay for their indigent deportees airfare.
There could also be an arrangement with the airlines where they agree to haul indigents home as part of their landing/flyover/airport fees (leaving them free to collect for the airfare in the deportee's home country). And don't some countries require you to deposit funds to get into the country? Money could come from there.
All in all, one of those annoying questions you never hear answered.
Sure, you can reduce all political conflicts from ideological conflicts about the arrangement of human affairs to nothing more than conflicts among elites for power and control, but it begs the question as to why ideologies were developed at all and assumes that no elites subscribe to even partial ideological motivations.
This is hard for me to accept, and it also presumes that ideologies only exist to fool the masses to the extent that they are necessary for elites to pursue power.
What the parent poster said is true of China as a country, as well. Just substitute "corporate" with "communist party" and it remains true.
What really scares me is how alike the modern western corporation and totalitarian communist governments have become. It used to be that they were actually opposed -- the communists took anti-capitalism, pro-worker philosophy seriously, and corporations at least paid lip service to entrepreneurialism and freedom.
Now the corporations lie and propagandize in ways that would make Goebbels or Stalin blush.