Except that if you read between the lines, this is all a subtle stab at the 2 year estimate. "A couple of years ago" we were slated to run out of addresses by 2010. Now they're estimating 2 more years.
We're bound to eventually run out, and it's probably going to be cheaper to start getting IPv6 out there now rather than at crunch time. But there's a lot that can be done to stretch out the IPv4 address space. I predict that we'll see major ISPs using NAT (and offering upgrades to real IP addresses for exhorbitant prices) before we see significant IPv6 adoption.
Depends upon where you are. In Texas, a police with his lights on is generally not responsible for damage to civilian vehicles. It takes egregiously reckless actions to even stand a chance at getting charges filed against them, and once they are, the good ol' boy network means that they'll get off.
Not very apropos. Netflix is still going to buy their DVDs (and likely the same amount of them.) Warner doesn't lose any money by delaying this, and they stand to make quite a bit more.
And since you may not infer it, the point of my post was to show the rgigger that it's unlikely that the access would be difficult to duplicate by another person, unless they also has physical access.
The original poster seemed to think that someone else could replicate the steps needed to compromise the server. I was quoting due to the use of his words. I think that 'break in' often has the connotation of using an exploit when talking about accessing computers.
It sounds like they "broke in" by booting from alternate media and reading the hard disk. They have physical access to the hardware--there's not a lot you can do to stop them.
100mbit link provides approximately 10MB/s. It's the difference between megabits and megabytes. I get about twice that on my USB drive. With gigabit, I can get around 50MB/s, and then the USB drive becomes the bottleneck.
The key is that with VPN, you can set up those client certs and two factor auth for a single server on your LAN--the VPN server--and all the rest can be used with lower security. Compare to configuring every host on your network in this way. Furthermore, a firewall helps guard against error. Did you accidentally set up a server incorrectly? Well the firewall still prevents everyone from accessing it unless they're using VPN.
VPN/Firewall is still a good portion of the layered security approach, and it would be even if every device on the network supported SSL/client certs.
Most other industrialized nations can't claim to have a form of government that's lasted as long and been so stable; they've all been interrupted by dictatorships (Spain, Germany, Italy), occupations by invaders (Poland, France, Belgium), had a complete change of government (Japan, China), etc.
How much of that is due to distance? America's pretty far away from all of the big powers. Waging a war across an ocean is difficult and costly. I'm sure that other country's leaders have dreamed of taking over America to get access to our resources over the centuries, but none have been fool enough to put much effort into it (if any at all.) Border wars are one thing, but attacking a country across the ocean just doesn't make much sense.
Movies are sent in a red Netflix envelope. There is a perforated piece of paper with your address which covers one side of the envelope (it covers the side with Netflix's return shipping address--the envelope you receive is the envelope you ship it back in.)
The movie itself is in a sleeve inside the envelope. The sleeve contains the movie, a description, and a barcode. A correctly inserted movie will only have the barcode revealed through a little window, presumably to make processing easier at the shipment facilities.
whenever i'm at the dmv and person after person responds "no" i always want to pipe up and ask them "why?" but it would be horribly out of line. i just can't understand the reasoning.
There's a pretty strong perception that doctors won't try quite as hard to save a person if they are an organ donor, because the organs need to be harvested before any damage is done to them. I don't know whether or not there's any basis to this fear.
When I buy a computer I don't want to chose between twelve versions of windows, I want some Linux options, or a least a no OS option.
And you're part of a tiny, tiny minority. The vast majority of people don't think of the operating system as different from the hardware. They think of the entire unit as "the computer." Very few people selling to consumers is realistically going to see a benefit to offering a softwareless computer. I'd like to put the blame for that on Microsoft, but realistically, that's just people. Microsoft made the PC affordable and easy enough for anyone to use, which made it possible for the PC market to flourish.
That said, there are companies that sell Linux computers. http://www.linux.org/vendor/system/ Patronize them if you don't want to deal with Microsoft.
Show me the reference in the story of Adam and Eve that states it's an Apple. Why can no one realize that there is no such thing as the forbidden apple from the Garden of Eden.
Which story? It's not in the original, but it is in Paradise Lost and it's certainly made its way into popular culture enough that people recognize the reference.
QuickTime expects to know about the entire movie when playing it, but that's not possible with many formats, including MKV and MPEG. Ask Apple to support seeking without an index if you'd like this to go away!
I had hopes that Quicktime X might have removed that restriction, but I think that Perian would have to be recoded to take advantage of it.
I'll check it out. The problem really doesn't present itself until you're using low-speed storage--either something off of a USB drive or on a slow network. In the past, you effectively had to read the entire file before playing it, so large files would take forever to start playing from e.g. an NFS share (though once they started, you could index into them just fine.)
The given example was a piece of software (Google Desktop) preventing another piece of software (Demigod) from running. You seem to want Microsoft to ensure that software doesn't get to interact like that.
Out of curiosity, how would Microsoft make sure that e.g. antivirus can't interfere with the execution of another program. In fact, that's precisely what antivirus is supposed to do.
You can sandbox every application, but that gets pretty hairy. There are a lot of times that you want software to interact, or at least to access other software's data.
This is exactly what they're talking about. Customers inherently (and unknowingly) follow the last-touch rule. The last piece of software they installed is to blame if things don't work. So if the A/V is installed first, and then the parent's product, it's going to be the parent's product that didn't work--not the A/V software. This will be true in the customer's mind, even if the A/V software is actually the product creating the bug.
The software ecosystem on a PC is really quite vast. It's impossible to test your product against every possible combination of hardware and software. Larger companies will be able to test with more, and thus will be shielded (to some degree) from problems with returns.
That said, regulation is almost always the enemy of small businesses. The more red tape that a business has to deal with, the less their profit margins will be.
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Except that if you read between the lines, this is all a subtle stab at the 2 year estimate. "A couple of years ago" we were slated to run out of addresses by 2010. Now they're estimating 2 more years.
We're bound to eventually run out, and it's probably going to be cheaper to start getting IPv6 out there now rather than at crunch time. But there's a lot that can be done to stretch out the IPv4 address space. I predict that we'll see major ISPs using NAT (and offering upgrades to real IP addresses for exhorbitant prices) before we see significant IPv6 adoption.
Depends upon where you are. In Texas, a police with his lights on is generally not responsible for damage to civilian vehicles. It takes egregiously reckless actions to even stand a chance at getting charges filed against them, and once they are, the good ol' boy network means that they'll get off.
That's what got me into Netflix. Not new releases, but old, out of print, b-movies.
Not very apropos. Netflix is still going to buy their DVDs (and likely the same amount of them.) Warner doesn't lose any money by delaying this, and they stand to make quite a bit more.
They're worried about piracy, allegedly. People who have gotten root on other Android devices managed to get around this limitation, however.
And since you may not infer it, the point of my post was to show the rgigger that it's unlikely that the access would be difficult to duplicate by another person, unless they also has physical access.
The original poster seemed to think that someone else could replicate the steps needed to compromise the server. I was quoting due to the use of his words. I think that 'break in' often has the connotation of using an exploit when talking about accessing computers.
I didn't say that made it legal.
That would prevent them from just browsing. It wouldn't prevent them from hijacking the binaries used to mount the encrypted disk.
So really, it all depends upon how hard they want to work to get into your box.
It sounds like they "broke in" by booting from alternate media and reading the hard disk. They have physical access to the hardware--there's not a lot you can do to stop them.
100mbit link provides approximately 10MB/s. It's the difference between megabits and megabytes. I get about twice that on my USB drive. With gigabit, I can get around 50MB/s, and then the USB drive becomes the bottleneck.
The key is that with VPN, you can set up those client certs and two factor auth for a single server on your LAN--the VPN server--and all the rest can be used with lower security. Compare to configuring every host on your network in this way. Furthermore, a firewall helps guard against error. Did you accidentally set up a server incorrectly? Well the firewall still prevents everyone from accessing it unless they're using VPN.
VPN/Firewall is still a good portion of the layered security approach, and it would be even if every device on the network supported SSL/client certs.
Most other industrialized nations can't claim to have a form of government that's lasted as long and been so stable; they've all been interrupted by dictatorships (Spain, Germany, Italy), occupations by invaders (Poland, France, Belgium), had a complete change of government (Japan, China), etc.
How much of that is due to distance? America's pretty far away from all of the big powers. Waging a war across an ocean is difficult and costly. I'm sure that other country's leaders have dreamed of taking over America to get access to our resources over the centuries, but none have been fool enough to put much effort into it (if any at all.) Border wars are one thing, but attacking a country across the ocean just doesn't make much sense.
Movies are sent in a red Netflix envelope. There is a perforated piece of paper with your address which covers one side of the envelope (it covers the side with Netflix's return shipping address--the envelope you receive is the envelope you ship it back in.)
The movie itself is in a sleeve inside the envelope. The sleeve contains the movie, a description, and a barcode. A correctly inserted movie will only have the barcode revealed through a little window, presumably to make processing easier at the shipment facilities.
See:
http://blogs.courierpostonline.com/mojodojo/files/2009/03/netflix-1.jpg
http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/netflixenvelope.jpg
whenever i'm at the dmv and person after person responds "no" i always want to pipe up and ask them "why?" but it would be horribly out of line. i just can't understand the reasoning.
There's a pretty strong perception that doctors won't try quite as hard to save a person if they are an organ donor, because the organs need to be harvested before any damage is done to them. I don't know whether or not there's any basis to this fear.
When I buy a computer I don't want to chose between twelve versions of windows, I want some Linux options, or a least a no OS option.
And you're part of a tiny, tiny minority. The vast majority of people don't think of the operating system as different from the hardware. They think of the entire unit as "the computer." Very few people selling to consumers is realistically going to see a benefit to offering a softwareless computer. I'd like to put the blame for that on Microsoft, but realistically, that's just people. Microsoft made the PC affordable and easy enough for anyone to use, which made it possible for the PC market to flourish.
That said, there are companies that sell Linux computers. http://www.linux.org/vendor/system/ Patronize them if you don't want to deal with Microsoft.
Show me the reference in the story of Adam and Eve that states it's an Apple. Why can no one realize that there is no such thing as the forbidden apple from the Garden of Eden.
Which story? It's not in the original, but it is in Paradise Lost and it's certainly made its way into popular culture enough that people recognize the reference.
Perian+Quicktime is awful for Matroska. Really, I wouldn't bother. See the first FAQ under http://perian.org/#support
Fair enough.
I've assumed that the problem I had was related to this:
http://perian.org/#support
Why does it take so long for MKV to load?
QuickTime expects to know about the entire movie when playing it, but that's not possible with many formats, including MKV and MPEG. Ask Apple to support seeking without an index if you'd like this to go away!
I had hopes that Quicktime X might have removed that restriction, but I think that Perian would have to be recoded to take advantage of it.
I'll check it out. The problem really doesn't present itself until you're using low-speed storage--either something off of a USB drive or on a slow network. In the past, you effectively had to read the entire file before playing it, so large files would take forever to start playing from e.g. an NFS share (though once they started, you could index into them just fine.)
I like the Matroska container. It's easy, extensible, and frankly it handles just about anything you can throw into it.
Quicktime+Perian handles Matroska poorly. VLC handles it splendidly. That's why I prefer VLC.
The given example was a piece of software (Google Desktop) preventing another piece of software (Demigod) from running. You seem to want Microsoft to ensure that software doesn't get to interact like that.
Out of curiosity, how would Microsoft make sure that e.g. antivirus can't interfere with the execution of another program. In fact, that's precisely what antivirus is supposed to do.
You can sandbox every application, but that gets pretty hairy. There are a lot of times that you want software to interact, or at least to access other software's data.
This is exactly what they're talking about. Customers inherently (and unknowingly) follow the last-touch rule. The last piece of software they installed is to blame if things don't work. So if the A/V is installed first, and then the parent's product, it's going to be the parent's product that didn't work--not the A/V software. This will be true in the customer's mind, even if the A/V software is actually the product creating the bug.
The software ecosystem on a PC is really quite vast. It's impossible to test your product against every possible combination of hardware and software. Larger companies will be able to test with more, and thus will be shielded (to some degree) from problems with returns.
That said, regulation is almost always the enemy of small businesses. The more red tape that a business has to deal with, the less their profit margins will be.
Sorry, my mistake then!
You're right, Sony would almost certainly not want to allow that.
The PS3 used to be able to rip Bluray DVDs merely by using dd. I assume that Sony put a stop to that, however.