Yeah man. That's not a good deal. I would say that akamai's servers are probably way faster than anything I could find for a lesser price. But shared hosting costs 4.95 these days, with a domain name included.
Shared hosting comes with unlimited bandwidth and space these days. VPS's do not.
I own a VPS with 5 gigs of space and very limited bandwidth for 10$ monthly, and a shared webhost for 5$ monthly with unlimited space and bandwidth. The webhost does promotions where you can get a second account for 3 dollars monthly.
Someone please mod Yahoo +5 for ironic as fuck.
Tracking internet users has no potential for abuse at all right Yahoo? Microsoft and IE are obviously trying to cut into your market share by deploying rogue technology against you.
I'd like to point out that in space paint pellets impacting with an object are really not going to behave as we all might assume. Perhaps a test of this system would be in order before surmising that it will cover an asteroid at all. I can just see the paint conserving momentum and being deflected away from the impact due to the lack of gravity and air. Like a really bad rendition of Deep Impact some blonde reporter getting on the TV to comment on the footage of our utter failure. Someone draw a trollface getting upset about it please.
...allow people to afford these prices, there is no supply and demand paradigm that normally keeps most prices decent or at least with some semblance of fairness.
...said that they just want us to get used to this. The airport is where they're trying it out, but we'll see it in other places soon. And the whole thing is bullshit. How many hijackers have they caught with this?
Right not true. But it is an allegory, filled with races representing what we might become in the future. Greedy beady eyed ferengi if capitalism prevails, warmongering klingons if we continue to blindly fight where no one was fighting before, vulcans if we should renounce violence and become scientifically oriented, the borg if we should continue to treat computers and robots with no respect and let technological body enhancements run unchecked, the romulans if we should continue to be ruled by selfish, lying political systems. There are many more single-episode races which speak volumes as to the nature of society. I believe Roddenberry intended the federation to paint a picture of his most peaceful hopes for our future, filled with diplomacy and sharing with neighbors.
Uh no. Even a first year physics student is taught that wires have resistance, and its significance need only be considered on transmission lines, which is the reason for high voltage.
Actually around here they often teach that in early grade school, perhaps 8th, 9th, or 10th.
So if you're still considering transmission lines to be lossless in first year physics, perhaps an arts degree is for you?
After posting several comments and not even reading the full original post nor the article, I've now done so and realized the most important questions: who gives the funding they mentioned? Why? Where does it come from and who made the decision? What is it spent on, and who benefits from that?
Someone told me rather recently that SSDs fail with spectacular explosions, fireworks, and burning. A read of several comments on this page speaks to the farcical nature of this idea. Can anyone comment on this?
This is what happens when politicians who know nothing about security or network infustructure make high level design decisions.
Let me edit your statement to make it more general but still true:
This is what happens when politicians who know nothing _______________________________ make ________________ decisions. OR
This is what happens when politicians _______________ _______________________________ make ________________ decisions.
Here we have a system which predates the horseless carriage, or that newfangled aero-plane. I even hear they're developing this new kind of machine called a telly-phone which can transmit ones voice across a whole continent.
It means important infustructure on a "secure" network becomes as complacent and vulnerable as the machines behind corporate firewalls. It is human nature. Without constant pressure it will happen. Federated authentication systems tend to induce weaknesses in server authentication.
Have you not considered that this exactly is the plan?
Aside from all the comments above regarding why it will not work and what difficulties can and will arise, compromising its so-called security, could this lead us to internet based elections and discussions of a political nature? Might we be permitted to have government level discussions from our homes over our secure access tokens to not only vote but to eliminate the need for representation at all? As a fictional example I cite the wonder work by Orson Scott Card entitled Ender's Game (If you haven't read it, quit slashdot forever) Where political discussions take place on "adult" nets requiring real name credentials, with no throw-away identities. For examples of how it won't work, due to loopholes and the like, I cite the same work of fiction in which two children use their father's credentials to write motivating columns for syndicated newspapers, obtain aliases to the secure nets as payments for their work, and set about taking over the world through the ideas they foster into the minds of the people. Time will tell. But I think the world as it is does not want to see an absolution of representation, nor the taxation that goes along with it.
See what happens when you outsource critical tasks to foreign nations with no knowledge of the consequences of their mistakes?
Or wait, maybe the problem is that the workers who do this are all unionized and don't care about their mistakes because of their protectionism and entitlement mentalities?
In all seriousness, shouldn't this part of the blackbox and its functionality be tested every time the plane lands/takes off? And also, shouldn't the blackbox be constructed in such a way that would prevent the "memory part" from just up and going missing? Otherwise, why the fuck do we have blackboxes? Why even have an NTSA or equivalent for your politically ambiguous region? Without data recorders that do their job, those boys are just working on a big jigsaw puzzle.
On another note, why is there only one such recorder? Why is there only one "memory part"? Why aren't there three, with one that floats and is ejected as soon as any kind of serious impact is detected? iirc they already have locators on them. Why has this taken so long to find? What are we doing wrong? Or has searching for flight data recorders and recreating horrible accidents become yet another make-work job to keep the economy artificially inflated?
But what about our post-apocalyptic ancestors who break into an abandoned house's play room, rifle through the shelves of board games to find the chemistry set, unopened due to video games, in order to go all MacGuyver on those zombie's asses, only to find: no chemicals. What the hell is a chemistry set with no chemicals? Is it like "batteries sold separately"?
We need to think of the future.
Let's not forget the story posted on slashdot last week about a guy who was arrested and all his computers searched because someone used his wifi to download CP.
"M'Lord.... M'Lord. We've found a witch!...
May we burn her?"
The best source for child pornography out there is the FBI's confiscation archives. Why do you think all the agents are so interested in working those kinds of cases?
It's understandable really. I'm sure if we had some 13 year old kids hack in and search the history/bookmarks of the FBI's top directors we would find no shopping or news links, but only sites about big breasts and so forth. It would be interesting to run the exact flavors of porn they look up through their own psychological profiler and see what it spits out! Hey someone mail these guys some links about online banking or cybershopping. Maybe a few news sites from non-censor-approved organizations.
No wait. On second thought don't. They'll just shut them down.
Well, with major portions of North America, Asia, and Europe all trying to control the networks within their borders, all I can say in response is thats what happens when you declare cyberspace independent of so much political bullshit without the ability to enforce it. More Tunnels!
I shamelessly promote the book "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth" or maybe it's "The Day.." by Corry Doctorow which can be downloaded for free at his site craphoud.com and I humbly encourage everyone to refrain from violence in the global struggle for such a fundamental right as freedom of information, taking place even inside borders which have declared such a right as granted.
It has begun.
Well, a great many posters have brought up points like security audits and access of patient records. This server sounds like it's very innocent and won't touch any sensitive data, and it probably will continue to hum with no problems and do what you like for years on end, keeping everyone's calendars sync'd and increasing your general efficiency by getting everyone to work around one another's time slots with ease.
But consider the unexpected. The machine in question is behind the primary firewall and can expose the rest of the network to risk.
What if your box is not patched properly and catches a worm? The IT department probably receives memos and straight away that morning runs a script to login to all machines on the network and execute some check for versions of something, followed by a request to you to patch it up. With no login, they can't do this.
What if your box is the weak point of the network and becomes a haven for some hacker. With a login the IT department can check to see if there are attacks on that server.
In essence, remember that the IT department is called "IT services". With the login they provide babysitting services for your server. Evidently you weren't able to get resources paid for by your organization to make this happen, but since you have provided the hardware, and they're willing to service it for free, might as well. This will take more time for your actual job, which is... I missed that but somehow related to actually serving patients. So, that's good. Personally I would provide them with both root and a standard login, with the expectation that they will safeguard this info appropriately.
At any rate, this entire situation seems to me to stem from a lack of communication, and poor communication skills. IT folks are known for this. Give them a break. Their usual human interactions is limited to phrases such as:
"My computer is broken"
"Bring it by the shop"
"I'll come take a look at it"
"This is fixed. Bye. Have a good day"
What should have happened is your IT guy (or girl?) says "Oh. Servers on our network need regular security audits. Could you set up a login for us to facilitate that? It will take X days and then we can open the ports you need."
Sales skills are required in every human interaction in which you wish to get your way without question. Simply provide some information, a benefit, then request what you need, and if possible follow up with more information involving a benefit.
I would hope that the owner of this indy office server can submit receipts and get the server paid for and ownership transfered in the future, after all the red tape gets dealt with.
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Sadly, it is a little bit. I think (and hope) it will become more regular as competitive edges become more required.
Yeah man. That's not a good deal. I would say that akamai's servers are probably way faster than anything I could find for a lesser price. But shared hosting costs 4.95 these days, with a domain name included.
Shared hosting comes with unlimited bandwidth and space these days. VPS's do not. I own a VPS with 5 gigs of space and very limited bandwidth for 10$ monthly, and a shared webhost for 5$ monthly with unlimited space and bandwidth. The webhost does promotions where you can get a second account for 3 dollars monthly.
Yeah. They really wouldn't want drunken Canadian Militia to burn down the White House again over an unauthorized foray from Minnesota into Canada.
Someone please mod Yahoo +5 for ironic as fuck. Tracking internet users has no potential for abuse at all right Yahoo? Microsoft and IE are obviously trying to cut into your market share by deploying rogue technology against you.
I'd like to point out that in space paint pellets impacting with an object are really not going to behave as we all might assume. Perhaps a test of this system would be in order before surmising that it will cover an asteroid at all. I can just see the paint conserving momentum and being deflected away from the impact due to the lack of gravity and air. Like a really bad rendition of Deep Impact some blonde reporter getting on the TV to comment on the footage of our utter failure. Someone draw a trollface getting upset about it please.
...allow people to afford these prices, there is no supply and demand paradigm that normally keeps most prices decent or at least with some semblance of fairness.
...said that they just want us to get used to this. The airport is where they're trying it out, but we'll see it in other places soon. And the whole thing is bullshit. How many hijackers have they caught with this?
Right not true. But it is an allegory, filled with races representing what we might become in the future. Greedy beady eyed ferengi if capitalism prevails, warmongering klingons if we continue to blindly fight where no one was fighting before, vulcans if we should renounce violence and become scientifically oriented, the borg if we should continue to treat computers and robots with no respect and let technological body enhancements run unchecked, the romulans if we should continue to be ruled by selfish, lying political systems. There are many more single-episode races which speak volumes as to the nature of society. I believe Roddenberry intended the federation to paint a picture of his most peaceful hopes for our future, filled with diplomacy and sharing with neighbors.
so that would be no; we already spent the money on other things.
Such as making depleted uranium shells and bullets to use in war games.
Uh no. Even a first year physics student is taught that wires have resistance, and its significance need only be considered on transmission lines, which is the reason for high voltage. Actually around here they often teach that in early grade school, perhaps 8th, 9th, or 10th. So if you're still considering transmission lines to be lossless in first year physics, perhaps an arts degree is for you?
After posting several comments and not even reading the full original post nor the article, I've now done so and realized the most important questions: who gives the funding they mentioned? Why? Where does it come from and who made the decision? What is it spent on, and who benefits from that?
You only noticed now?
Someone told me rather recently that SSDs fail with spectacular explosions, fireworks, and burning. A read of several comments on this page speaks to the farcical nature of this idea. Can anyone comment on this?
Yes but then we'll need to buy a new secure network, and then we'll have three. That's good for profit, right?
This is what happens when politicians who know nothing about security or network infustructure make high level design decisions.
Let me edit your statement to make it more general but still true:
This is what happens when politicians who know nothing _______________________________ make ________________ decisions.
OR
This is what happens when politicians _______________ _______________________________ make ________________ decisions.
Here we have a system which predates the horseless carriage, or that newfangled aero-plane. I even hear they're developing this new kind of machine called a telly-phone which can transmit ones voice across a whole continent.
It means important infustructure on a "secure" network becomes as complacent and vulnerable as the machines behind corporate firewalls. It is human nature. Without constant pressure it will happen. Federated authentication systems tend to induce weaknesses in server authentication.
Have you not considered that this exactly is the plan?
Aside from all the comments above regarding why it will not work and what difficulties can and will arise, compromising its so-called security, could this lead us to internet based elections and discussions of a political nature? Might we be permitted to have government level discussions from our homes over our secure access tokens to not only vote but to eliminate the need for representation at all? As a fictional example I cite the wonder work by Orson Scott Card entitled Ender's Game (If you haven't read it, quit slashdot forever) Where political discussions take place on "adult" nets requiring real name credentials, with no throw-away identities. For examples of how it won't work, due to loopholes and the like, I cite the same work of fiction in which two children use their father's credentials to write motivating columns for syndicated newspapers, obtain aliases to the secure nets as payments for their work, and set about taking over the world through the ideas they foster into the minds of the people. Time will tell. But I think the world as it is does not want to see an absolution of representation, nor the taxation that goes along with it.
See what happens when you outsource critical tasks to foreign nations with no knowledge of the consequences of their mistakes?
Or wait, maybe the problem is that the workers who do this are all unionized and don't care about their mistakes because of their protectionism and entitlement mentalities?
In all seriousness, shouldn't this part of the blackbox and its functionality be tested every time the plane lands/takes off? And also, shouldn't the blackbox be constructed in such a way that would prevent the "memory part" from just up and going missing? Otherwise, why the fuck do we have blackboxes? Why even have an NTSA or equivalent for your politically ambiguous region? Without data recorders that do their job, those boys are just working on a big jigsaw puzzle.
On another note, why is there only one such recorder? Why is there only one "memory part"? Why aren't there three, with one that floats and is ejected as soon as any kind of serious impact is detected? iirc they already have locators on them. Why has this taken so long to find? What are we doing wrong? Or has searching for flight data recorders and recreating horrible accidents become yet another make-work job to keep the economy artificially inflated?
...someone who knows the the fuck they are doing in a regulatory position for the internet.
But what about our post-apocalyptic ancestors who break into an abandoned house's play room, rifle through the shelves of board games to find the chemistry set, unopened due to video games, in order to go all MacGuyver on those zombie's asses, only to find: no chemicals. What the hell is a chemistry set with no chemicals? Is it like "batteries sold separately"?
We need to think of the future.
Let's not forget the story posted on slashdot last week about a guy who was arrested and all his computers searched because someone used his wifi to download CP.
"M'Lord.... M'Lord. We've found a witch!...
May we burn her?"
The best source for child pornography out there is the FBI's confiscation archives. Why do you think all the agents are so interested in working those kinds of cases?
It's understandable really. I'm sure if we had some 13 year old kids hack in and search the history/bookmarks of the FBI's top directors we would find no shopping or news links, but only sites about big breasts and so forth. It would be interesting to run the exact flavors of porn they look up through their own psychological profiler and see what it spits out! Hey someone mail these guys some links about online banking or cybershopping. Maybe a few news sites from non-censor-approved organizations.
No wait. On second thought don't. They'll just shut them down.
Well, with major portions of North America, Asia, and Europe all trying to control the networks within their borders, all I can say in response is thats what happens when you declare cyberspace independent of so much political bullshit without the ability to enforce it. More Tunnels! I shamelessly promote the book "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth" or maybe it's "The Day.." by Corry Doctorow which can be downloaded for free at his site craphoud.com and I humbly encourage everyone to refrain from violence in the global struggle for such a fundamental right as freedom of information, taking place even inside borders which have declared such a right as granted. It has begun.
But consider the unexpected. The machine in question is behind the primary firewall and can expose the rest of the network to risk.
What if your box is not patched properly and catches a worm? The IT department probably receives memos and straight away that morning runs a script to login to all machines on the network and execute some check for versions of something, followed by a request to you to patch it up. With no login, they can't do this.
What if your box is the weak point of the network and becomes a haven for some hacker. With a login the IT department can check to see if there are attacks on that server. In essence, remember that the IT department is called "IT services". With the login they provide babysitting services for your server. Evidently you weren't able to get resources paid for by your organization to make this happen, but since you have provided the hardware, and they're willing to service it for free, might as well. This will take more time for your actual job, which is... I missed that but somehow related to actually serving patients. So, that's good. Personally I would provide them with both root and a standard login, with the expectation that they will safeguard this info appropriately. At any rate, this entire situation seems to me to stem from a lack of communication, and poor communication skills. IT folks are known for this. Give them a break. Their usual human interactions is limited to phrases such as:
What should have happened is your IT guy (or girl?) says "Oh. Servers on our network need regular security audits. Could you set up a login for us to facilitate that? It will take X days and then we can open the ports you need."
Sales skills are required in every human interaction in which you wish to get your way without question. Simply provide some information, a benefit, then request what you need, and if possible follow up with more information involving a benefit.
I would hope that the owner of this indy office server can submit receipts and get the server paid for and ownership transfered in the future, after all the red tape gets dealt with.