Ah, typical Euro-centric thinking where they think because you live in Paris, you can just usurp free wifi because it's there. Never mind that it's on shared cable modem bandwidth and that typically bandwidth in Europe is shit. The ISM band is so saturated that you could charge your phone just through induction because to live there you're living 3-5 stacked on top of each other (in the city).
So when the lights go out, so does the Wi-Fi network. If you were relying on the mobile network instead of dedicated 2-way radios, then it usually means that the mobile network will overload instantly with people calling their friends asking "are the light out where you are?"
And I don't like the idea of an Emergency "switch" of any kind backdooring my router. Cisco already does it with their 'Vault' devices and the idea that I would now have to rent my router that I paid full price for from the retailer makes me want to smash the device with a hammer.
Don't try relying on it outside of the city tho... it goes from city one block to farm land just like that. And it would never work here because of the suburbs.
One should backup anyways. But typically you have 48 hours to know if a certain track will hit your area. Not 5 days. Weather forecasts are only good to 90% up to 3 days.
Cloud storage is less of an issue than the cloud hosted services. High availability, even in the cloud, has to be architected into the software.
Wrong... because if your storage is on one continent and you fail over to another continent/region, suddenly your app slows to a crawl as your storage has to go over a WAN link (even if it's within Amazon's network). This leads to timeouts in queries/connections and generally bad things that will happen.
Problem is that most companies that use these services don't load balance across the datacenters. They usually have most of their core in one given region and nothing or load balanced in others... Mostly it's because of cost having extra instances up and running... but it's also in software design and app architecture.
If you don't have multiple cores in multiple regions, your site will go down when there's an outage in that cloud region.
So cost wise, if you have to do this... where's your savings again? The Cloud is bullshit.
The Internet was designed to be a network where it can grow and *shrink* as needed. If they want to "control" the Internet, let them be like Iran or China and control their own little sandbox. If people want to "join" them, let it be a opt-in decision. If not, leave the rest of us alone.
Personally, I think there is a lot of benefit to Internet fragmentation. Yes, it creates bottlenecks (we already have that). But it also strengthens the members within those networks by allowing them to focus resources.
It could mean the Command and Control authentication for remote administration of the station. I'm sure there are SATCOM pirates who would love to screw with the attitude controls of something like the space station.
Seriously, what do you expect for security when a 8 year old can "override the security protocols" at a whim?
The engineers who designed that system need to get bitch slapped - repeatedly.
Well then it's a good thing that VMWare just put up a big old toll plaza on the road to the cloud that will slow things down significantly for many organizations. For those that aren't aware VMWare just announced their pricing model for ESX 5 and it's pretty freaking outrageous, $90/GB list bought in $2800 increments if you want Enterprise with most of the good features.
Doesn't affect the big players in the market already who built on XEN which is open and mostly free.
In in that case, you better have 1/ a convertible currency to buy said satellite phone link, and 2/ a working financial system, i.e. banks still performing international transactions. Both of which is not a given for some 3rd world countries, esp. during a time or crisis.
I'd expect that if you are organized enough to get your message out, you also have:
1.) a currency that isn't going to be more useless than toilet paper tomorrow tied to a foreign 3rd party bank... I hear that's what the swiss excel in...
2.) a group that has your back like the red crecent/red cross... or at least willing to pull some strings to get you smuggled out of the country if you're being hunted...
3.) a satellite termnal/phone since they are relatively cheap... it's the satcom time that's expensive. While it's all good gestures to allow your Cairo apartment block tweet out some messages to their family abroad and upload the snuff video of the day to youtube, you better have some backing behind you for those times when the tanks roll into your town...
Again, I didn't see any pirate APRS packets coming from Egypt all weekend. So I'm assuming that things aren't dire enough to do so.
There are LEO birds that pass over Cairo twice a day at least... so not hearing a single packet from there shows they didn't need to employ all options. And for APRS, it only takes a computer with a soundcard and a handheld radio in a open area.
It seems to me that setting up darknets, encryption and vpn's after a internet blackout is lifted is sort of like closing the barn door after the animals get out.
If you're going to be an organization that runs in to restore communication links when the people at the top turn the switch off, you're gonna need a little more coordination than taking the shotgun approach. You need to employ organized, practiced emergency communication practices. The same practices that you would employ during a natural disaster that knocks out communications. I don't really see that going on here.
Telecomix has a dialup pool of modems available for people to dial to "if" they can call out of the country.. never mind that it's their dime to make the international call. I guess in a place where the average wage is $2/day they could try and phreak it but then someone gets toss into a prison and that's pretty much the reason they're protesting in the first place...
Amateur Radio operators in Egypt may also be under the same blackout as the radio/internet people as well in fear of said prisons. It would explain why there is no APRS traffic coming from Egypt...
I'm of the opinion that if you're being suppressed/repressed by your government, you can either obey or go pirate. And if you're gonna go pirate, then you need to coordinate some... or get your own satellite phone like the news agencies have.
"By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders, who ranks toward the bottom of CNET's Technology Voters' Guide, and whose anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP."
I say we get Al Gore to form the world police. After all, he 'invented' the Internet and the Internet is an American invention. He might have more luck with doing this rather than herding people in climate change talks...
As a person who dox were also dropped on textfiles.com, I also had the same thoughts about it. One may think of it as a badge of shame... while my relatives love using it as an extra story just to one up someone.
Personally, I don't mind it anymore. At least I can say "I was there and here's the t-shirt". In fact, I would do something to "update" or "refresh" your image like others have stated.
I met with Jason Scott while doing all the conferences. His stance is very justifiable and I wouldn't ask him to change. In fact, if you did, you'd probably get the finger as his status as an "Archivist" is pretty much bulletproof. However, Jason is always willing to accept "new submissions". By doing so, you can give "the rest of the story"... which is probably something alot of e-zines from back in the day lack. All of us sorta dropped off the scene pretty quick once the world changed. But if you got something like this hanging over you, I'd suggest spin doctoring it.
Besides, with facebook and all the other social networking sites being spidered by search engines, I doubt textfiles gets even 1/100th the traffic these sites generate.
Now if I can ever finish a new e-zine update worthy.... it was so much simpler to write back then...;-)
I got my first computer (a c-64) with many other 8-bit machines following it when I was 8 years old. Being exposed to computers of that era is much different than computers now with kids now. Back then, we didn't have to worry about virii as much as we do now. Depending on what computer you owned, you had to worry about power blackouts after typing in hundreds of lines of code. If you did have a problem, you hit the power switch and it would come back up in less than 3 seconds to where you started (san the program you wanted).
However, 20 some years later, as I look at the two pre-teen boys that live in my household I wonder, "What is the difference?" If you asked them what they want to be when they grow up, they want to be a rocket scientist and a cop respectively of their ages. I think any child psychologist would say that their interests reflect the adults interests in the household. A kid sees me typing in front of a computer 8+ hours a day will think, "Hmm, computers are really interesting." but will not go as far as "Hmm, I bet that code he's writing will be a really cool program." because now a days software isn't like that. It's prepackaged that you get out of a kiosk at the local drug/convenience store or a strip mall somewhere. Oh, and the internet too.
Back some 20 years ago, software was distributed on magnetic media sure. But people who were learning and got bang for their buck were coding from ABC's Publications of 'Compute' and maybe 'Compute Gazette' for commodore users. Local businesses could specialize in one computer brand because there was enough to go around. And game systems didn't have endless sagas like FF37.:)
So, when I look at these kids and ask the question, "How much technology is too much for a kid?". I say any is too much depending on what values you want to instill into them. Back in our day, parents would gripe about how much TV we'd watch. Now, I hardly watch 10 hours a week. But the computer addiction still lives tho I make sure to take a step back from it even and experience the real world. There's more to life than watching my characters appear on the screen.
Kids now, from what I've seen, are hardcore into electronics whether you like it or not. If it lights up and makes a noise (sometimes) then they're into it. Remember tamaguchi's? Those devices where you had to waste time with it otherwise it would die? Makes me wonder what would happen if the big EMP would wipe out electronics. Living without electricity sucks bad enough for a short time but for a kid who thinks it'll be forever for them to grow up, it's like fish in the blender. They're just going nuts till they find out what the person outside the glass container is going to do.
My advice: Teach them the same values you're accustom to. For any kid under the age of 13, do not buy them a game system. Make them go outside and play. If they need to be inside, get a old commodore or atari or apple 2 and some old copies of compute and teach them how to program. Sure the reward was the game, but the sense of accomplishment came from typing it all in by hand and catching every mistake. Computers show kids there's no room for minor slips unlike them doing the dishes.:)
It sure beats "I got my MORPG character to level 57!". Because kid, there's always that one person that's a higher level than you. See Boy Scouts Merit Badges as reference.
I've seen discrimination on all parts: Age, Race and Gender.
The department I was working in was mostly white (about 80%) with the rest being asian. Only 1 actually working in the department was female. During the hiring process, I've seen young kids get dropped as well as older with the median being around 35 years.
Company wide however, the statistics are a little more disturbing with approximately 60% being white, 30% being indian and 10% being asian. Male to female ratio is pathetic at around 50:1 with most women working in legal or advertising.
But personally, I think the EOA needs to go. Filling slots because they're of ethnicity prevents good people from getting into areas that would benefit the company. Most employers i've seen have a pretty token diversity policy yet tout it like they are changing the world.
And no, I don't think that a person's sexuality should be basis on whether or not they get a job no matter what they claim. It should always boil down to whether or not the person will fit into the position.
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Ah, typical Euro-centric thinking where they think because you live in Paris, you can just usurp free wifi because it's there. Never mind that it's on shared cable modem bandwidth and that typically bandwidth in Europe is shit. The ISM band is so saturated that you could charge your phone just through induction because to live there you're living 3-5 stacked on top of each other (in the city). So when the lights go out, so does the Wi-Fi network. If you were relying on the mobile network instead of dedicated 2-way radios, then it usually means that the mobile network will overload instantly with people calling their friends asking "are the light out where you are?" And I don't like the idea of an Emergency "switch" of any kind backdooring my router. Cisco already does it with their 'Vault' devices and the idea that I would now have to rent my router that I paid full price for from the retailer makes me want to smash the device with a hammer. Don't try relying on it outside of the city tho... it goes from city one block to farm land just like that. And it would never work here because of the suburbs.
Amazon is directly connected and multi-homed with several backbone carriers. It wasn't an ISP issue.
One should backup anyways. But typically you have 48 hours to know if a certain track will hit your area. Not 5 days. Weather forecasts are only good to 90% up to 3 days.
Cloud storage is less of an issue than the cloud hosted services. High availability, even in the cloud, has to be architected into the software.
Wrong... because if your storage is on one continent and you fail over to another continent/region, suddenly your app slows to a crawl as your storage has to go over a WAN link (even if it's within Amazon's network). This leads to timeouts in queries/connections and generally bad things that will happen.
Bad service architecture... Not multi-homing to multiple servers in multiple service regions.
Not to mention that the app has to be architected to take advantage of different zones/regions.
Problem is that most companies that use these services don't load balance across the datacenters. They usually have most of their core in one given region and nothing or load balanced in others... Mostly it's because of cost having extra instances up and running... but it's also in software design and app architecture. If you don't have multiple cores in multiple regions, your site will go down when there's an outage in that cloud region. So cost wise, if you have to do this... where's your savings again? The Cloud is bullshit.
Why do I have to pay for your well? Drill your own damn well is what Don Corleone should have said.
The Internet was designed to be a network where it can grow and *shrink* as needed. If they want to "control" the Internet, let them be like Iran or China and control their own little sandbox. If people want to "join" them, let it be a opt-in decision. If not, leave the rest of us alone. Personally, I think there is a lot of benefit to Internet fragmentation. Yes, it creates bottlenecks (we already have that). But it also strengthens the members within those networks by allowing them to focus resources.
It could mean the Command and Control authentication for remote administration of the station. I'm sure there are SATCOM pirates who would love to screw with the attitude controls of something like the space station.
Seriously, what do you expect for security when a 8 year old can "override the security protocols" at a whim? The engineers who designed that system need to get bitch slapped - repeatedly.
Project will probably be canceled because some astro-enviromentalist detected a spor on a moon rock that can live in a vacuum.
Well then it's a good thing that VMWare just put up a big old toll plaza on the road to the cloud that will slow things down significantly for many organizations. For those that aren't aware VMWare just announced their pricing model for ESX 5 and it's pretty freaking outrageous, $90/GB list bought in $2800 increments if you want Enterprise with most of the good features.
Doesn't affect the big players in the market already who built on XEN which is open and mostly free.
In in that case, you better have 1/ a convertible currency to buy said satellite phone link, and 2/ a working financial system, i.e. banks still performing international transactions. Both of which is not a given for some 3rd world countries, esp. during a time or crisis.
I'd expect that if you are organized enough to get your message out, you also have:
1.) a currency that isn't going to be more useless than toilet paper tomorrow tied to a foreign 3rd party bank... I hear that's what the swiss excel in...
2.) a group that has your back like the red crecent/red cross... or at least willing to pull some strings to get you smuggled out of the country if you're being hunted...
3.) a satellite termnal/phone since they are relatively cheap... it's the satcom time that's expensive. While it's all good gestures to allow your Cairo apartment block tweet out some messages to their family abroad and upload the snuff video of the day to youtube, you better have some backing behind you for those times when the tanks roll into your town...
Again, I didn't see any pirate APRS packets coming from Egypt all weekend. So I'm assuming that things aren't dire enough to do so.
There are LEO birds that pass over Cairo twice a day at least... so not hearing a single packet from there shows they didn't need to employ all options. And for APRS, it only takes a computer with a soundcard and a handheld radio in a open area.
It seems to me that setting up darknets, encryption and vpn's after a internet blackout is lifted is sort of like closing the barn door after the animals get out.
If you're going to be an organization that runs in to restore communication links when the people at the top turn the switch off, you're gonna need a little more coordination than taking the shotgun approach. You need to employ organized, practiced emergency communication practices. The same practices that you would employ during a natural disaster that knocks out communications. I don't really see that going on here.
Telecomix has a dialup pool of modems available for people to dial to "if" they can call out of the country.. never mind that it's their dime to make the international call. I guess in a place where the average wage is $2/day they could try and phreak it but then someone gets toss into a prison and that's pretty much the reason they're protesting in the first place...
Amateur Radio operators in Egypt may also be under the same blackout as the radio/internet people as well in fear of said prisons. It would explain why there is no APRS traffic coming from Egypt...
I'm of the opinion that if you're being suppressed/repressed by your government, you can either obey or go pirate. And if you're gonna go pirate, then you need to coordinate some... or get your own satellite phone like the news agencies have.
Organizations like this may be able to help this cause: http://buythissatellite.org/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10024163-38.html [cnet.com]
"By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders, who ranks toward the bottom of CNET's Technology Voters' Guide, and whose anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP."
It's because Biden is a known fanboy of the RIAA. It's also one of the major reasons why I didn't vote for the pair.
I say we get Al Gore to form the world police. After all, he 'invented' the Internet and the Internet is an American invention. He might have more luck with doing this rather than herding people in climate change talks...
As a person who dox were also dropped on textfiles.com, I also had the same thoughts about it. One may think of it as a badge of shame... while my relatives love using it as an extra story just to one up someone.
Personally, I don't mind it anymore. At least I can say "I was there and here's the t-shirt". In fact, I would do something to "update" or "refresh" your image like others have stated.
I met with Jason Scott while doing all the conferences. His stance is very justifiable and I wouldn't ask him to change. In fact, if you did, you'd probably get the finger as his status as an "Archivist" is pretty much bulletproof. However, Jason is always willing to accept "new submissions". By doing so, you can give "the rest of the story"... which is probably something alot of e-zines from back in the day lack. All of us sorta dropped off the scene pretty quick once the world changed. But if you got something like this hanging over you, I'd suggest spin doctoring it.
Besides, with facebook and all the other social networking sites being spidered by search engines, I doubt textfiles gets even 1/100th the traffic these sites generate.
Now if I can ever finish a new e-zine update worthy.... it was so much simpler to write back then... ;-)
I got my first computer (a c-64) with many other 8-bit machines following it when I was 8 years old. Being exposed to computers of that era is much different than computers now with kids now. Back then, we didn't have to worry about virii as much as we do now. Depending on what computer you owned, you had to worry about power blackouts after typing in hundreds of lines of code. If you did have a problem, you hit the power switch and it would come back up in less than 3 seconds to where you started (san the program you wanted).
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However, 20 some years later, as I look at the two pre-teen boys that live in my household I wonder, "What is the difference?" If you asked them what they want to be when they grow up, they want to be a rocket scientist and a cop respectively of their ages. I think any child psychologist would say that their interests reflect the adults interests in the household. A kid sees me typing in front of a computer 8+ hours a day will think, "Hmm, computers are really interesting." but will not go as far as "Hmm, I bet that code he's writing will be a really cool program." because now a days software isn't like that. It's prepackaged that you get out of a kiosk at the local drug/convenience store or a strip mall somewhere. Oh, and the internet too.
Back some 20 years ago, software was distributed on magnetic media sure. But people who were learning and got bang for their buck were coding from ABC's Publications of 'Compute' and maybe 'Compute Gazette' for commodore users. Local businesses could specialize in one computer brand because there was enough to go around. And game systems didn't have endless sagas like FF37.
So, when I look at these kids and ask the question, "How much technology is too much for a kid?". I say any is too much depending on what values you want to instill into them. Back in our day, parents would gripe about how much TV we'd watch. Now, I hardly watch 10 hours a week. But the computer addiction still lives tho I make sure to take a step back from it even and experience the real world. There's more to life than watching my characters appear on the screen.
Kids now, from what I've seen, are hardcore into electronics whether you like it or not. If it lights up and makes a noise (sometimes) then they're into it. Remember tamaguchi's? Those devices where you had to waste time with it otherwise it would die? Makes me wonder what would happen if the big EMP would wipe out electronics. Living without electricity sucks bad enough for a short time but for a kid who thinks it'll be forever for them to grow up, it's like fish in the blender. They're just going nuts till they find out what the person outside the glass container is going to do.
My advice: Teach them the same values you're accustom to. For any kid under the age of 13, do not buy them a game system. Make them go outside and play. If they need to be inside, get a old commodore or atari or apple 2 and some old copies of compute and teach them how to program. Sure the reward was the game, but the sense of accomplishment came from typing it all in by hand and catching every mistake. Computers show kids there's no room for minor slips unlike them doing the dishes.
It sure beats "I got my MORPG character to level 57!". Because kid, there's always that one person that's a higher level than you. See Boy Scouts Merit Badges as reference.
I've seen discrimination on all parts: Age, Race and Gender.
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The department I was working in was mostly white (about 80%) with the rest being asian. Only 1 actually working in the department was female. During the hiring process, I've seen young kids get dropped as well as older with the median being around 35 years.
Company wide however, the statistics are a little more disturbing with approximately 60% being white, 30% being indian and 10% being asian. Male to female ratio is pathetic at around 50:1 with most women working in legal or advertising.
But personally, I think the EOA needs to go. Filling slots because they're of ethnicity prevents good people from getting into areas that would benefit the company. Most employers i've seen have a pretty token diversity policy yet tout it like they are changing the world.
And no, I don't think that a person's sexuality should be basis on whether or not they get a job no matter what they claim. It should always boil down to whether or not the person will fit into the position.
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You forgot Kindergarden Cop (PG-13) with the graphic killing in the shower room.
"I'm Detective John Kimble!"