Missing in all of this is the reality that in the vast majority of this country there is no competition.
I live in the heart of Silicon Valley and there are only two sets of wires into a home... POT and Cable Coax.
DSL over the POT lines is a joke. Error rates are high and data rates low. Large percentages of the service areas do not qualify for DSL data rates much better than a voice line because they are too far from a central office.
Comcast sells a triple package here. Telephone, Data and Video(all digital now). They directly compete with the phone company. They now directly compete with NetFlix and offer their own video library on demand.
Yes they need to do traffic shaping. Yes they need to disclose their biases. No bias will be neutral.
As for traffic shaping, P2P sharing as used by NBC video services, and other P2P technology will be key, even Skype uses proxies.
There is however technology ready and waiting in this old coaxial cable world. Technology such that there is NO reason for digital dropout for most services including video, voice and data.
A coaxial cable will service many RF channels that can be decoded in isolation. Thus there is no reason for Comcast to traffic limit NetFlix when they have reserved a full set of RF channels for their own video services.
I do not trust Comcast to be neutral because they are not neutral now. They have reserved the vast majority of the bandwidth of my coaxial cable drop for their own products and now with Xfinity they are dipping into the TCP/IP bandwidth pool to serve video in direct competition with other video services from youtube to netflix....
Fiber optics to the neighborhood might help if there was enough bandwidth behind it. FO like coax can also deliver multiple domains of data... the decoding loading and unloading of these domains is not neutral.... and is not part of the discussion.
Some of this will come to a head with the deployment of IPv6.
It seems to me that a new classification is needed. --"WikiLeaked" seems to be the missing classification.
Back to "spillage", the systems from which the leaked documents leaked still contain classified material and could leak/ spill a muddy mix of still Classified and "WikiLeaked" content. Detecting such a muddy second leak would be further complicated because of the mix and a clean up would also be complicated.
I had hoped that the likes of WikiLeaks would discover sources to stolen software source in their mail box. Say stolen software hidden in the coffers of one or more companies in the pacific north west. As it is WikiLeaks may be squashed before important leaks leak.
This may (should) trigger an honest investigation into air quality in offices.
Fresh air exchange rates in zoning law are likely all wrong.
Perfume triggers migraines in about as many people
as peanuts trigger allergic reactions. Many perfumes
contain chemicals known to cause cancer with MUCH
more certainty than second hand smoke.
We are worried about chickens living in crowded conditions
but not our employees....
I once saw video of a turkey farm that was hit by a virus outbreak.
They had to kill millions of birds... what is an employer to do?
Claim 1: A computer-implemented process for allowing different types of clicker devices to be used in a personal response system, comprising:
receiving inputs from more than one type of clicker device;
....snip.....
This is a blatant attempt to corner the voting machine business.
In that a computer is a mechanism then they are attempting
to patent voting machines.... even the old mechanical ones
where you pulled levers. The levers clicked...
A larger threat may be the ultra quiet electric submarines
that China has now and others could build now that ultra high
precision lathes have escaped to off shore for disk
drive production.
If linking is illegal then library cards are
also illegal. Perhaps more so if a library
has a card catalog on line.
To some degree Amazon is indistinguishable from
a library card catalog. Search for subject, title, keywords
or other index key and copy the ISBN or Dewey Decimal
number, submit and magically you have a book via the
LINK PROVIDED.
They'll "let" other people use them.... and then sue them. Without even looking at it, I'm sure some of the patents are so broad I'm violating one by breathing.
Exactly... consider that the state of California is known
to contain chemicals known to produce cancer.
"Any users navigating to wikileaks.org will pose a serious risk of introducing classified information to an unclassified machine."
This is important and valid at a lot of levels.....!
The management of classified information can involve the searching for and identification
of key word and code phrases that should not cross a boundary from classified to unclassified.
Technology not unlike virus scanning might be used and the match need not be made
against phrases in the clear but some sort of encoding or hash matching can be used.
Polluting the managed and monitored unclassified systems could generate
an abundance of "false positive" alarms negating the quality of the monitor system.
For this reason alone it makes a lot of sense and is orthogonal to this topic.
And this also makes a case that one should separate work and non work.
It does not address the reality that the encrypted doomsday file is a great
source of random numbers that can be used in a one time pad way to
secure other information. Data on DVDs and music CDs is not
random enough....but makes a good second choice for communication between
friends.
So,
(1) This is not official policy; it is an alumnus giving personal advice to undergrads at his alma mater.
(2) It has nothing to do with reading/not reading wikileaks.
I really have to spend less time reading/. summaries.
Unless the alumnus is someone like:
Eric Holder B.A. American History, Columbia University
Attorney General J.D., Columbia Law School
Freedom of speech implies that others can read or listen
to what is being said.
It seems to me that this strategy is akin to:
If you cannot muzzle the speaker it is fair to puncture the
eardrums and pluck out the eyes of any potential audience?
I am not a fan of WiKi leaks blindly publishing documents
but some of the stories that are surfacing with research
from major news outlets are telling a story that
may well qualify as justification. Time will tell.
I do not know enough yet to solidify an opinion yet.
Mozilla is the base code for a lot of browsers and as such both pushes and drags these interfaces into all other Mozilla derived/ inspired browsers.
Mozilla needs to fix it.
There is an advantage in fixing it as it will
set the stage for better dirt boxing and better
security (enforced by SELinux for example). Today
there is both system and ~/.mozilla or the windows
equivalent that are in common... The search path
for plugins and more keeps growing with no obvious
way to narrow them.
It does involve a foreign national interacting with property in the US. Involved in undisclosed criminal activities..... Had this been a US citizen
or US Corporation I think other activities would have taken place.
One interesting point seems to be that any foreign national can have its service shutdown in a very opaque way.
Had this been a mechanical robot under control of a foreign individual in the process of importing anything illegal it would make sense. Say a drug carrying speed boat... but how far does this go.
What if the issue was a machine shop with employees where ten percent of the parts being machined were illegal. Real people, real wages, real patent or trademark infringements. All with real remote control by a foreign..?
Now search and replace all your thoughts on this with a major multinational company like BP. Under control by a foreign national, robots, real damage.
In a heart beat the company and assets would be nationalized little different than the nationalization of the Chilean copper industry
in the late 60's and early 70's.
Is this a plan or the paranoid musings of someone with a long memory that watched what Chile did....
But compare it to the radiation dose the TSA considers harmless
from their back scatter system. That might tell us something.
And true the news does not know how to report and follow up
on these very common transports of short lived isotopes.
Slashdot Mirror
If the judge has an agent read any of his email
he must excuse himself. Personal or to his office.
Golly... this mine is in the high desert. There is no
such thing as hundreds of thousands of gallons of water....
Any water used will be recycled....
In this part of the desert folk drive 40 miles to the mail box.
This is not to say that they can ignore environmental cautions
and concerns but -- for goodness sake get some facts right.
Missing in all of this is the reality that in the vast majority of this country
there is no competition.
I live in the heart of Silicon Valley and there are
only two sets of wires into a home... POT and
Cable Coax.
DSL over the POT lines is a joke. Error rates are
high and data rates low. Large percentages of the
service areas do not qualify for DSL data rates much
better than a voice line because they are too far from
a central office.
Comcast sells a triple package here. Telephone,
Data and Video(all digital now). They directly compete
with the phone company. They now directly compete
with NetFlix and offer their own video library on demand.
Yes they need to do traffic shaping. Yes they need
to disclose their biases. No bias will be neutral.
As for traffic shaping, P2P sharing as used by NBC
video services, and other P2P technology will be key,
even Skype uses proxies.
There is however technology ready and waiting in this
old coaxial cable world. Technology such that there
is NO reason for digital dropout for most services
including video, voice and data.
A coaxial cable will service many RF channels that can
be decoded in isolation. Thus there is no reason for
Comcast to traffic limit NetFlix when they have reserved
a full set of RF channels for their own video services.
I do not trust Comcast to be neutral because they are ....
not neutral now. They have reserved the vast majority
of the bandwidth of my coaxial cable drop for their own products
and now with Xfinity they are dipping into the TCP/IP bandwidth
pool to serve video in direct competition with other video
services from youtube to netflix
Fiber optics to the neighborhood might help if there was
enough bandwidth behind it. FO like coax can also
deliver multiple domains of data... the decoding loading and
unloading of these domains is not neutral.... and is not
part of the discussion.
Some of this will come to a head with the deployment
of IPv6.
Most of the guys at the top making these decisions are old and don't understand how the internet works. It's kinda cute, really.
DO NOT BET ON IT.
There are some rock for brain folk
but there are some very clever very
dedicated folk there....
"Spillage procedures" is a telling phrase.
It seems to me that a new classification is needed. --"WikiLeaked"
seems to be the missing classification.
Back to "spillage", the systems from which the leaked
documents leaked still contain classified material and
could leak/ spill a muddy mix of still Classified and "WikiLeaked"
content. Detecting such a muddy second leak would
be further complicated because of the mix and a clean up
would also be complicated.
I had hoped that the likes of WikiLeaks would discover
sources to stolen software source in their mail box. Say
stolen software hidden in the coffers of one or more companies
in the pacific north west. As it is WikiLeaks may be squashed
before important leaks leak.
This may (should) trigger an honest investigation into air quality in offices. Fresh air exchange rates in zoning law are likely all wrong.
Perfume triggers migraines in about as many people as peanuts trigger allergic reactions. Many perfumes contain chemicals known to cause cancer with MUCH more certainty than second hand smoke.
We are worried about chickens living in crowded conditions but not our employees....
I once saw video of a turkey farm that was hit by a virus outbreak. They had to kill millions of birds... what is an employer to do?
N.B. I thought I made a mistake once, but I was mistaken.
Oh no, are they pulling my copy of Oedipus Rex?
I fear a complex coming on.
Claim 1: A computer-implemented process for allowing different types of clicker devices to be used in a personal response system, comprising:
receiving inputs from more than one type of clicker device;
This is a blatant attempt to corner the voting machine business.
In that a computer is a mechanism then they are attempting to patent voting machines.... even the old mechanical ones where you pulled levers. The levers clicked...
I have heard of this before too:
Read more about PT-109
A larger threat may be the ultra quiet electric submarines that China has now and others could build now that ultra high precision lathes have escaped to off shore for disk drive production.
To some degree Amazon is indistinguishable from a library card catalog. Search for subject, title, keywords or other index key and copy the ISBN or Dewey Decimal number, submit and magically you have a book via the LINK PROVIDED.
"prohibitions against 'destabilizing' and 'disquieting' content"
Clearly they should not talk about the exhaustion of ipv4 addresses or the end of the linux epoch when 32bit dates roll over.
They'll "let" other people use them.... and then sue them. Without even looking at it, I'm sure some of the patents are so broad I'm violating one by breathing.
Exactly... consider that the state of California is known to contain chemicals known to produce cancer.
"Any users navigating to wikileaks.org will pose a serious risk of introducing classified information to an unclassified machine."
This is important and valid at a lot of levels.....!
The management of classified information can involve the searching for and identification of key word and code phrases that should not cross a boundary from classified to unclassified. Technology not unlike virus scanning might be used and the match need not be made against phrases in the clear but some sort of encoding or hash matching can be used.
Polluting the managed and monitored unclassified systems could generate an abundance of "false positive" alarms negating the quality of the monitor system.
For this reason alone it makes a lot of sense and is orthogonal to this topic.
And this also makes a case that one should separate work and non work.
It does not address the reality that the encrypted doomsday file is a great source of random numbers that can be used in a one time pad way to secure other information. Data on DVDs and music CDs is not random enough....but makes a good second choice for communication between friends.
So, (1) This is not official policy; it is an alumnus giving personal advice to undergrads at his alma mater. (2) It has nothing to do with reading/not reading wikileaks.
I really have to spend less time reading /. summaries.
Unless the alumnus is someone like:
Eric Holder B.A. American History, Columbia University
Attorney General J.D., Columbia Law School
Freedom of speech implies that others can read or listen to what is being said.
It seems to me that this strategy is akin to: If you cannot muzzle the speaker it is fair to puncture the eardrums and pluck out the eyes of any potential audience?
I am not a fan of WiKi leaks blindly publishing documents but some of the stories that are surfacing with research from major news outlets are telling a story that may well qualify as justification. Time will tell. I do not know enough yet to solidify an opinion yet.
Mozilla needs to fix it.
There is an advantage in fixing it as it will set the stage for better dirt boxing and better security (enforced by SELinux for example). Today there is both system and ~/.mozilla or the windows equivalent that are in common... The search path for plugins and more keeps growing with no obvious way to narrow them.
If I click on the update phone my Android phone fails to connect to the update site and demands that I wait another 24 hours to try.
At least my service provider is very nearly the beginning of the American alphabet which should put my up-date first in the list.
There are also a lot of files that normal permissions will not let me see to backup....
At least I do not have my personal TSA full body scan images on the phone.
It does involve a foreign national interacting with property in the US. Involved in undisclosed criminal activities..... Had this been a US citizen or US Corporation I think other activities would have taken place.
One interesting point seems to be that any foreign national can have its service shutdown in a very opaque way.
Had this been a mechanical robot under control of a foreign individual in the process of importing anything illegal it would make sense. Say a drug carrying speed boat... but how far does this go.
What if the issue was a machine shop with employees where ten percent of the parts being machined were illegal. Real people, real wages, real patent or trademark infringements. All with real remote control by a foreign..?
Now search and replace all your thoughts on this with a major multinational company like BP. Under control by a foreign national, robots, real damage.
In a heart beat the company and assets would be nationalized little different than the nationalization of the Chilean copper industry in the late 60's and early 70's.
Is this a plan or the paranoid musings of someone with a long memory that watched what Chile did....
And if I look at the image I see odd stuff:
# strings foo.jpg | grep -i Copy
I see "Copyright (c) 1998 Hewlett-Packard Company" I wonder what it is that HP has a Copyright on here.
What ever happened to due process?
Or file a grand theft complaint.
The cost of filing a patent is likely sufficient proof that the value is in excess of grand theft limits.
Get to the root of the problem and ban students.
But compare it to the radiation dose the TSA considers harmless from their back scatter system. That might tell us something.
And true the news does not know how to report and follow up on these very common transports of short lived isotopes.
They are switching to a grope and irradiation factor rating.