... and I can tell you that this wouldn't work on our service. Nor almost any cable service. You would get cut off within the day you started to exceed your bandwidth cap.
As for the question "why is the bandwidth capping happening at the cable modem?", I beleive the answer is that it has to so that the CMTS bandwidth (the bandwidth on the cable plant between the modem and the cable router) is not used up. But that's not to say that the bandwidth you use at the cable router end isn't closely monitored. Hence why you will get shut off in no time flat when you start to exceed your provisioned bandwidth.
The first time I had a discussion with IBM was shortly after I sent out the shareholder's letter. [...] I laid out to [IBM] that we've got all this intellectual property, and you guys have done well with your IP rights. He said, "Oh yeah. We do over a billion dollars in business with that. Protecting your IP is a great idea." -- Darl
That reminds me of that episode of The Simpsons where Homer starts his 'Mr. Plow' business, and then tells Barney he should start his own business too, so Barney starts 'Plow King' and begins attacking Homer directly to beat him with his own idea.
Apparently, Darl watches The Simpsons too.
Dealing with all these dupe posts...
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Since Slashdot is mainly a series of posts about articles on other web sites, why don't they add to it a database of links referenced in previous posts. That way, before a new article is posted, it's links can be checked against the database to determine if a similiar article has already been posted.
It can work like a spell checker, merely suggesting links that have appeared before, so you can identify the links that should be unique and ignore the ones that you know aren't (ie to project web sites, company web sites, and the like).
How about offering the $250K to whomever writes something to remotely clean up all these blaster infected computers that are clogging up internet bandwidth and routers with their scanning?
... what is the purpose of getting these ridiculous patents when everyone and their mom already has 'prior art'? Is there some kind of an advantage that I don't know about? Does the prior art produced have to be your own and not someone elses (MS could therefore eliminate any future competition)?
I'm rooting for Kazaa just like everyone else on this one, but seriously... this stands about as much chance as the old FTP servers I used to frequent that displayed a banner claiming "If you are a member of a government agency, including law enforcement, you must disconnect now."
"For every anti-piracy measure that cripples legitimate use of music, there is a counter measure that enables full, unfettered use of the music that will be discovered."
strAtEdgE's second law of music piracy:
"If music companies don't smarten up and halt poor business practices like selling crippled products to willing customers, more and more people are going to learn to prefer using the counter measures mentioned in the first law."
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The best we can hope for is that ISPs get smart and start blocking SMTP ports on all ip addresses not registered as SMTP servers.
That's simply not an effective solution. If these virii used SMTP to recieve the spam before sending it out, it would simply be a minor first generation mistake by their creators. It really doesn't matter how spammers get spam out to these drones. Any means of delivery, on any port, including those where the infected computers go out and look for subsiquent messages to spam will be effective.
If you're familiar with the commonly used method of controlling masses of DDoS drones via IRC (where the clients connect back to an IRC network and listen for commands in a channel), then just imagine if that framework were applied to a spamming network. This is a very difficult situation for ISPs to deal with.
The problem is, the bad guys have all the advantages having shedding moral and legal restraint. Still the only effective solution I can see are neutralizing virii/worms released before damaging ones when widespread exploits are found to patch/render useless said exploits, beating them to the punch. Working within the system simply does not work. Trust that I am in the line of work that I can say this with some authority. Hell, even when you point out to ISP customers that they are infected with a virus/trojan/work, a large percentage of them still don't care.
I really hope some white hats are listening. The problem is only going to get worse.
The Toronto mayor said it best, "Have you ever known the americans to take the blame for anything?".
It is our fault though... it's our fault for sharing an electrical grid system with the americans in the first place. We should have begun segregating ourselves after the world trade centre attack; they're a target and we're not. We should be distancing ourselves from their infrastructure every way we can to reduce the risk of cross border collateral damage.
For a long time now we've been hearing "this might be a good test for the GPL", "xyz organization could hold them accountable for violations of the GPL", etc. Well now, finally, IBM is going to test the real meat of the GPL. Really, it's been a coming for a while, I'm surprised it's taken so long. But this will be good, because the longer it waits, the bigger the stakes get, and I'm afraid they're getting a bit too big already.
I wish something like this would have happened a couple years ago... before I started running 5 Linux servers at work that I now can't do without.
'Beer bellies' are caused by food/drinks with yeast, including beer, bread, and the like. It's not an issue of 'fat', it's an issue of bloating in the digestive tract. More info.
Cut back on the beer.
Preface: I don't buy the idea that the employees have anything to do or say about the misdirection of their company in this case (any of us would do the same thing, nothing, in their shoes). I think the original comment is misguided but NOT for the reason you have cited.
Political correctness be damned, I refuse to stop calling a spade a spade on account of people like you. Likewise, I refuse to stop calling blind obedience where I see it. It's something that many religions require to varrying degrees, but there is aboslutely no doubt that the Mormon religion is one of the worst offending anywhere and deserves cult status.
When I was down in San Diego last week, I played at a golf course (Encinitas Ranch?) that was giving away tees made of this stuff. It's a great idea because a lot of tees break apart and then go flying off into the grass, especially with guys like me who like to tee the ball high... or the woman I golfed with who liked to use a tee everywhere but the greens.
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... and I can tell you that this wouldn't work on our service. Nor almost any cable service. You would get cut off within the day you started to exceed your bandwidth cap.
As for the question "why is the bandwidth capping happening at the cable modem?", I beleive the answer is that it has to so that the CMTS bandwidth (the bandwidth on the cable plant between the modem and the cable router) is not used up. But that's not to say that the bandwidth you use at the cable router end isn't closely monitored. Hence why you will get shut off in no time flat when you start to exceed your provisioned bandwidth.
Obviously the MyDoom.B worm that DDoS's Microsoft was created by Eolas, right mainstream media?
That reminds me of that episode of The Simpsons where Homer starts his 'Mr. Plow' business, and then tells Barney he should start his own business too, so Barney starts 'Plow King' and begins attacking Homer directly to beat him with his own idea.
Apparently, Darl watches The Simpsons too.
Since Slashdot is mainly a series of posts about articles on other web sites, why don't they add to it a database of links referenced in previous posts. That way, before a new article is posted, it's links can be checked against the database to determine if a similiar article has already been posted.
It can work like a spell checker, merely suggesting links that have appeared before, so you can identify the links that should be unique and ignore the ones that you know aren't (ie to project web sites, company web sites, and the like).
... would be to do anything other than tell SCO to take a hike.
Someone explain to this guy that in the united states, you have to be elected before you are allowed to threaten other, smaller countries.
How about offering the $250K to whomever writes something to remotely clean up all these blaster infected computers that are clogging up internet bandwidth and routers with their scanning?
I think that's the point... you sell it to other countries, and then invade.
...in the form of this.
... what is the purpose of getting these ridiculous patents when everyone and their mom already has 'prior art'? Is there some kind of an advantage that I don't know about? Does the prior art produced have to be your own and not someone elses (MS could therefore eliminate any future competition)?
I'm rooting for Kazaa just like everyone else on this one, but seriously... this stands about as much chance as the old FTP servers I used to frequent that displayed a banner claiming "If you are a member of a government agency, including law enforcement, you must disconnect now."
strAtEdgE's first law of music piracy:
"For every anti-piracy measure that cripples legitimate use of music, there is a counter measure that enables full, unfettered use of the music that will be discovered."
strAtEdgE's second law of music piracy:
"If music companies don't smarten up and halt poor business practices like selling crippled products to willing customers, more and more people are going to learn to prefer using the counter measures mentioned in the first law."
The best we can hope for is that ISPs get smart and start blocking SMTP ports on all ip addresses not registered as SMTP servers. That's simply not an effective solution. If these virii used SMTP to recieve the spam before sending it out, it would simply be a minor first generation mistake by their creators. It really doesn't matter how spammers get spam out to these drones. Any means of delivery, on any port, including those where the infected computers go out and look for subsiquent messages to spam will be effective. If you're familiar with the commonly used method of controlling masses of DDoS drones via IRC (where the clients connect back to an IRC network and listen for commands in a channel), then just imagine if that framework were applied to a spamming network. This is a very difficult situation for ISPs to deal with. The problem is, the bad guys have all the advantages having shedding moral and legal restraint. Still the only effective solution I can see are neutralizing virii/worms released before damaging ones when widespread exploits are found to patch/render useless said exploits, beating them to the punch. Working within the system simply does not work. Trust that I am in the line of work that I can say this with some authority. Hell, even when you point out to ISP customers that they are infected with a virus/trojan/work, a large percentage of them still don't care. I really hope some white hats are listening. The problem is only going to get worse.
The Toronto mayor said it best, "Have you ever known the americans to take the blame for anything?".
It is our fault though... it's our fault for sharing an electrical grid system with the americans in the first place. We should have begun segregating ourselves after the world trade centre attack; they're a target and we're not. We should be distancing ourselves from their infrastructure every way we can to reduce the risk of cross border collateral damage.
I wish something like this would have happened a couple years ago... before I started running 5 Linux servers at work that I now can't do without.
Even if they fully automate the submission process, can Apple swallow the cost of thousands of albums sitting on their hard disks?
If I can, why can't they?
'Beer bellies' are caused by food/drinks with yeast, including beer, bread, and the like. It's not an issue of 'fat', it's an issue of bloating in the digestive tract. More info. Cut back on the beer.
C'mon people... you know the drill... anyone got one?
Bullshit yourself.
Preface: I don't buy the idea that the employees have anything to do or say about the misdirection of their company in this case (any of us would do the same thing, nothing, in their shoes). I think the original comment is misguided but NOT for the reason you have cited.
Political correctness be damned, I refuse to stop calling a spade a spade on account of people like you. Likewise, I refuse to stop calling blind obedience where I see it. It's something that many religions require to varrying degrees, but there is aboslutely no doubt that the Mormon religion is one of the worst offending anywhere and deserves cult status.
When I was down in San Diego last week, I played at a golf course (Encinitas Ranch?) that was giving away tees made of this stuff. It's a great idea because a lot of tees break apart and then go flying off into the grass, especially with guys like me who like to tee the ball high... or the woman I golfed with who liked to use a tee everywhere but the greens.
Uh oh did someone say France? Next thing you know the americans are going to want to call it the 'freedomgram'.
That's just really sad that someone would do something like that.
On a completely unrelated note, does anyone know how to hotwire a segway? Thanks in advance.
Yeah, don't expect americans to learn any lessons the first time around! (or the second... or the third... or the fourth...)
I would encourage someone to make an ascii porn! Just think... work safe porn!
... is no matter how bad their economy gets, all someone has to do is start chanting "USA! USA!" and they completley forget all their problems.
Although from time to time when that doesn't work you may have to start a war.