D.I. is neither good or bad, it is the illegal or immoral application of the technology that is the problem.
It's a technology that almost no one wants except for those who are in a position to abuse it. That makes it difficult or impossible to view it as a "neutral" thing.
DPI has been used for several years to maintain the integrity and security of networks, searching for signs of protocol non-compliance, viruses, malicious code, SPAM and other threats.
Are you suggesting people don't want a less SPAMy, more secure internet? There's more to it than "oh noes, the isp's are spying my internets!"
I'm not saying I want them to, there's just more to it than some people realize.
The North coast, you know the Great Lakes region. There are no large cities along the northern border that are more than 100 miles from the Atlantic or Pacific or Great Lakes (well perhaps Minneapolis, but it's close at 150 miles according to Google maps).
Define a 'large city'. As it stands you are leaving out whole STATES in your 100 miles! (Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Utah, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and more)
Chicago, IL --> St. Louis MO ~300mi (closest ocean/great lake) ...and we don't even want to TALK about Salt Lake City or Denver...
Do you by chance live on the east coast (or perhaps some country other than the US)? It seems to me that people from over there don't seem to understand just how much open space there is in the west/midwest US.
The solution: Ban fresh food, you may now only eat canned/boxed/frozen goods that require no dangerous tools. That eliminates any reason to use a knife for any (legal) purpose, right?
The problem with this in relation to the article is the price:
ICANN has proposed an application cost of US$185,000, not including yearly upkeep fees.
Now I don't know about you, but most "people" don't have that kind of money to throw at a domain name.
The real thing to think about:
How will this affect online shopping? Those big companies with money to blow will get their fancy gTLDs whereas small businesses and freshly started ones who don't have that kind of money will be stuck with what may eventually become the 'less appealing'.com/.org/etc that we already have. Will these small companies be pushed aside because they lack the appeal of having a fancy gTLD? Will people be more suspicious of them because it is easier for malicious people to set up a spoofed site with a.com than a.insert-big-corp-here?
The thing is, saying "more than 84 hours, almost twice as much as any other site" sounds FAR worse for twitter (and they don't feel as silly writing it) than 99.05%
No, previous methods are too slow because they examine the contents of each file, whereas the new system is completely passive and only looks at the hash.
A handful of network-monitoring tools can identify specific BitTorrent files, but the process is generally slow, since the contents of each file have to be examined. The time that this takes also increases exponentially as the number of files that need to be scanned grows.
"Our system differs in that it is completely passive, meaning that it does not change any information entering or leaving a network,"
There is also the question about paying the government back.
FTFA:
The $264,000 has already been spent on the camera surveillance project in Cambridge, Fire Chief Gerald Reardon said. It is unclear if Cambridge will have to pay back this money.
... the users posting these comments gave fake information when creating an e-mail address to register at Topix and posted from an anonymous location such as an internet cafe?
Slashdot Mirror
... incoming bad super-villain?
Obviously this information is only really useful to someone attempting to work out the cost of posting the Internet somewhere
...and this would be useful? Ever?
...but do they have plans to attach them to sharks?
Either that's an EXTREMELY expensive college or he's going for a LOOOONG time...
If some of these comments look familiar, it's because this is not new, it was just delayed
It's a technology that almost no one wants except for those who are in a position to abuse it. That makes it difficult or impossible to view it as a "neutral" thing.
What about this? http://dpi.priv.gc.ca/index.php/what-is-deep-packet-inspection/
DPI has been used for several years to maintain the integrity and security of networks, searching for signs of protocol non-compliance, viruses, malicious code, SPAM and other threats.
Are you suggesting people don't want a less SPAMy, more secure internet? There's more to it than "oh noes, the isp's are spying my internets!"
I'm not saying I want them to, there's just more to it than some people realize.
All it would take is the right cables to be cut for the internet to go down. Perhaps with a rented backhoe even.
A single backhoe might have some trouble getting the entire internet in 30 minutes. What's the top speed on those things?
The North coast, you know the Great Lakes region. There are no large cities along the northern border that are more than 100 miles from the Atlantic or Pacific or Great Lakes (well perhaps Minneapolis, but it's close at 150 miles according to Google maps).
Define a 'large city'. As it stands you are leaving out whole STATES in your 100 miles! (Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Utah, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and more)
...and we don't even want to TALK about Salt Lake City or Denver...
Chicago, IL --> St. Louis MO ~300mi (closest ocean/great lake)
Do you by chance live on the east coast (or perhaps some country other than the US)? It seems to me that people from over there don't seem to understand just how much open space there is in the west/midwest US.
The solution: Ban fresh food, you may now only eat canned/boxed/frozen goods that require no dangerous tools. That eliminates any reason to use a knife for any (legal) purpose, right?
And just think of how easy it would be for Big Brother to update the truth if there weren't all those pesky hard copies laying around!
That would work well, people from other countries would NEVER think of spoofing their address.
I think that's his way of saying "We can't make all the users happy so we're going to do our best to make sure none are happy."
Magnets? What's the matter? Couldn't get lasers?
(because every creature deserves a warm meal)
Now I don't know about you, but most "people" don't have that kind of money to throw at a domain name. The real thing to think about: How will this affect online shopping? Those big companies with money to blow will get their fancy gTLDs whereas small businesses and freshly started ones who don't have that kind of money will be stuck with what may eventually become the 'less appealing' .com/.org/etc that we already have. Will these small companies be pushed aside because they lack the appeal of having a fancy gTLD? Will people be more suspicious of them because it is easier for malicious people to set up a spoofed site with a .com than a .insert-big-corp-here?
Fixed it for ya. Seriously, they are in school to pay attention and learn, not sit there an text people.
The thing is, saying "more than 84 hours, almost twice as much as any other site" sounds FAR worse for twitter (and they don't feel as silly writing it) than 99.05%
I swear, I had a Get out of jail free card
How many people do YOU know that keep 13 computers in their ho... wait, scratch that... this is /.
FTFA:
... the users posting these comments gave fake information when creating an e-mail address to register at Topix and posted from an anonymous location such as an internet cafe?
You're in luck! I have recently heard of a book that could help with your scripting...
There was an article on idle about this a few months ago... http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/14/1656240 "the gene that makes you good at Halo also makes you a premature poster."