You may be right, though there may be other issues, such as where the files are stored geographically (for both lag and limitation defined by content companies) and local laws defining what content is available, based on rating and content type?
Not everyone is geographically static. People travel, that includes international travel. The challenge is blocking VPNs, while not blocking paying customers that are travelling. They are certainly doing this to appease the local distributors, but it is a fine line they need to tread. Hopefully they don't resort to the cell phone model, where you get charged extra for roaming time.
Given e-mail is for the most part sent in the clear, thus equivalent to a postcard, what amount of encryption would make it letter post equivalent (indicating privacy, rather than sensitivity)? Does 256-bit sound reasonable (thinking low effort of encryption/decryption, but easily openable by an agency, using resources they already have using a court order, if it came to it)?
For the metric version it would likely be 'tonne' or 'metric ton'. As for the 21/2, I'll agree with you that this is badly presented. Don't get me started on issues of US value representation, since it will probably get me -1ed to hell.
They should get navy seals to take out the people on the hill that made that call.
I am suspecting the key components that have the issue are probably not Chinese, since they would not pass muster for a security audit. China doesn't have the monopoly on 'cheap crap' or 'badly QAed crap'.
Paper rockets for a has-been nation. Obama killed NASA heavy launch and gave us fake, unfunded programs. Go talk to China or India if you want progress.
Are you sure this was Obamas's doing? I thought these sort of funding decisions was down to congress?
The president can have great visions, but in the end depends on congress to allow them to happen.
The anime one is interesting and shows how crazy some of these distribution agreements are. I have been watching 'Fairy Tail' on Netflix and it only goes up to episode 49, but on Crunchy Roll, you can't watch the episodes that are currently on Netflix, for this series. This means you need two subscriptions to watch the whole series.
This whole situation feels like going into one store to buy a series on Blu-Ray and then being told that you have to go to the other store to get the other half. This doesn't happen in brick and mortar stores, so why does it happen with online viewing sites?
Things become a little murkier if you add IPv6, which Netflix supports, by means of AWS. The blocks are huge and variable in size. The challenge of blocking IP ranges is asking what is a fair range to block, without incurring collateral damage? Then add to that the creativity of people looking to get around geographical IP blocks, which certainly makes things a case of cat and mouse.
What really needs to happen is for the media cartels to accept that their 'per geography' distribution models are starting to crack and if they want to keep control, then they need to be a little more flexible?
I wouldn't describe it as totally unbiased, but it did seem less biased than all the other options here in the USA.
Bingo. It wasn't totally unbiased, but they covered a lot of stuff that never made it into the 3-minute "news" cycle that most of the news outlets in the US live and die by.
All news sources will have some degrees of bias, whether it is intentional or incidental. In the end when we are exposed to a source of news, we should be aware of who sponsors it, who the target audience is, what the quality of research is and what their historical narrative has been.
Ideally if you the time, exposing yourself to multiple sources and understanding historical context is the best, but beyond a specific story, I doubt many of us can or will make that time. Saying that, that doesn't mean we shouldn't be open to different takes on the same story.
This might just lead to touch screen keypads, where the numbers change sequence per use?
I already know of one bank where your online pin needs to be entered via a reconfiguring onscreen keypad. I believe the intent is to avoid key loggers.
The truth is, with interactive security, the human is always going to be the weak point.
Putting DOA and human atopsies together somehow starts making me wonder if this is a case of Mulder and Sculley. All that is missing is the smoking man.
The guy doesn't want to open it up, and doesn't have time to convert it to Openstreet Maps (according to posts here), so unless Google makes a concession, maybe the best thing is to clone the concept as something open source? The functionality doesn't sound too hard to imitate?
I would have suggested the original author open source it, but the FAQ makes it sound like he doesn't really want to.
The challenge is that a number of companies don't have the notion of role based accounts, so when you are faced with registering something of the sorts, it is a challenge trying to work out the best way to do this, without tying the account to a transient entity (any employee or physical resource is transient).
Companies that don't have the notion of aliased accounts or special account types for this purpose are just asking for issues.
Actually, why can't this be done by the browser? Browsers could easily have an option, whereby any time you access a new site or domain, that tries to set a cookie or use the local browser storage, you get warned.
A better law could simply require sites to have an info page listing what is being tracked? Maybe a standard http://..../privacy/ or http://..../cookies/ section? Could make the advertisers uncomfortable:)
It has puzzled me why reputedly intelligent people at google would handicap their platform by such an obviously slow, inefficient language. Android is C and NMI under the covers anyway. One wonders if James Gossling is behind it?
Because it allowed them to be CPU architecture agnostic. I don't believe an ARM based CPU is a requirement for Android?
With politicians want to push for back doors, this illustrates why we don't need them. Normal encryption has its weaknesses, flaws and limitations, which a well resourced 'intelligence' agency can take advantage of. Add the back doors and you have just expanded on the weaknesses, flaws and limitations, that would drive people to another form of encryption.
If we don't have Microsoft, who is the best contender to fill the gap? Linux is not a suitable desktop replacement, but does well on the server; MacOS means being able buying hardware from only one company and for the other contenders their maturity just isn't there.
I may not be a big fan of Microsoft, but I have to accept they fill the general day to day needs of corporations quite well.
I get a kick out of Slashdot because it's mostly software developers who can see how destructive patents are in their own field, but not every other field. Every field is "fast moving" if you're actually paying close attention.
I mention software because this is the field I know and understand the impact in. While it may be true in other fields too, I put in my vote where I see the damage. I'll let the experts in the other fields identify the damage that patents may or not be doing for their line of work.
That being said, anything that doesn't have a physical element or specific physical implementation should probably also be red flags in the patent process.
Patents shouldn't be provided for software, period. The quality of the patents are generally poor and they are often patenting something that already exists somewhere. In the end in fast moving field, patents are more of hindrance than a benefit.
Trying to not support two things, is why cell phone companies are planning on going IPv6 with NAT64/DNS64. It is also why all iOS 9 apps must support IPv6. Thus approach allows them to optimise their infrastructure for IPv6 and only deal with IPv4 on the border.
Nothing is stopping anyone from staying IPv4 internally, but if you can't speak to that IPv6 service outside your network, then you'll look pretty stupid. At least get a web proxy, that deals with IPv6 externally, if you don't want to deal with the setup internally.
You know how big an IPv6 subnet is? Think of scanning the whole IPv4 address space and then you are close. Between IPv6 privacy extensions and DHCPv6, you can reduce the scope of scanning. Also, with a firewall in place, that scanning shouldn't even be possible.
The biggest barrier to IPv6 adoption has been people not sitting down and adding themselves what is the native IPv6 way of dealing withings and saying it is a security risk. The biggest risk is putting off the work.
Case In point: I recently faced an issue where some users were having connectivity issues. All health checks looked good. Turns out the issue was down to not having an IPv6 strategy. These users were already on IPv6 and some of the cache servers at various providers had AAAA entries, but no IPv6 on the web server, or did have IPv6 on the server, but was badly configured. Because of the lack of IPv6 strategy, there were no operational health checks on the IPv6 status. We didn't look good to these customers, because business, and even ops, thought IPv6 wasn't important - oops.
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Why is the "Logitech racing wheel driver" part of the kernel, even if it is optional, rather than a user space driver?
You may be right, though there may be other issues, such as where the files are stored geographically (for both lag and limitation defined by content companies) and local laws defining what content is available, based on rating and content type?
Not everyone is geographically static. People travel, that includes international travel. The challenge is blocking VPNs, while not blocking paying customers that are travelling. They are certainly doing this to appease the local distributors, but it is a fine line they need to tread. Hopefully they don't resort to the cell phone model, where you get charged extra for roaming time.
Given e-mail is for the most part sent in the clear, thus equivalent to a postcard, what amount of encryption would make it letter post equivalent (indicating privacy, rather than sensitivity)? Does 256-bit sound reasonable (thinking low effort of encryption/decryption, but easily openable by an agency, using resources they already have using a court order, if it came to it)?
For the metric version it would likely be 'tonne' or 'metric ton'. As for the 21/2, I'll agree with you that this is badly presented. Don't get me started on issues of US value representation, since it will probably get me -1ed to hell.
They should get navy seals to take out the people on the hill that made that call.
I am suspecting the key components that have the issue are probably not Chinese, since they would not pass muster for a security audit. China doesn't have the monopoly on 'cheap crap' or 'badly QAed crap'.
Paper rockets for a has-been nation. Obama killed NASA heavy launch and gave us fake, unfunded programs. Go talk to China or India if you want progress.
Are you sure this was Obamas's doing? I thought these sort of funding decisions was down to congress?
The president can have great visions, but in the end depends on congress to allow them to happen.
The anime one is interesting and shows how crazy some of these distribution agreements are. I have been watching 'Fairy Tail' on Netflix and it only goes up to episode 49, but on Crunchy Roll, you can't watch the episodes that are currently on Netflix, for this series. This means you need two subscriptions to watch the whole series.
This whole situation feels like going into one store to buy a series on Blu-Ray and then being told that you have to go to the other store to get the other half. This doesn't happen in brick and mortar stores, so why does it happen with online viewing sites?
Things become a little murkier if you add IPv6, which Netflix supports, by means of AWS. The blocks are huge and variable in size. The challenge of blocking IP ranges is asking what is a fair range to block, without incurring collateral damage? Then add to that the creativity of people looking to get around geographical IP blocks, which certainly makes things a case of cat and mouse.
What really needs to happen is for the media cartels to accept that their 'per geography' distribution models are starting to crack and if they want to keep control, then they need to be a little more flexible?
I wouldn't describe it as totally unbiased, but it did seem less biased than all the other options here in the USA.
Bingo. It wasn't totally unbiased, but they covered a lot of stuff that never made it into the 3-minute "news" cycle that most of the news outlets in the US live and die by.
All news sources will have some degrees of bias, whether it is intentional or incidental. In the end when we are exposed to a source of news, we should be aware of who sponsors it, who the target audience is, what the quality of research is and what their historical narrative has been.
Ideally if you the time, exposing yourself to multiple sources and understanding historical context is the best, but beyond a specific story, I doubt many of us can or will make that time. Saying that, that doesn't mean we shouldn't be open to different takes on the same story.
This might just lead to touch screen keypads, where the numbers change sequence per use?
I already know of one bank where your online pin needs to be entered via a reconfiguring onscreen keypad. I believe the intent is to avoid key loggers.
The truth is, with interactive security, the human is always going to be the weak point.
Putting DOA and human atopsies together somehow starts making me wonder if this is a case of Mulder and Sculley. All that is missing is the smoking man.
The guy doesn't want to open it up, and doesn't have time to convert it to Openstreet Maps (according to posts here), so unless Google makes a concession, maybe the best thing is to clone the concept as something open source? The functionality doesn't sound too hard to imitate?
I would have suggested the original author open source it, but the FAQ makes it sound like he doesn't really want to.
The challenge is that a number of companies don't have the notion of role based accounts, so when you are faced with registering something of the sorts, it is a challenge trying to work out the best way to do this, without tying the account to a transient entity (any employee or physical resource is transient).
Companies that don't have the notion of aliased accounts or special account types for this purpose are just asking for issues.
Actually, why can't this be done by the browser? Browsers could easily have an option, whereby any time you access a new site or domain, that tries to set a cookie or use the local browser storage, you get warned.
A better law could simply require sites to have an info page listing what is being tracked? Maybe a standard http://..../privacy/ or http://..../cookies/ section? Could make the advertisers uncomfortable :)
It has puzzled me why reputedly intelligent people at google would handicap their platform by such an obviously slow, inefficient language. Android is C and NMI under the covers anyway. One wonders if James Gossling is behind it?
Because it allowed them to be CPU architecture agnostic. I don't believe an ARM based CPU is a requirement for Android?
With politicians want to push for back doors, this illustrates why we don't need them. Normal encryption has its weaknesses, flaws and limitations, which a well resourced 'intelligence' agency can take advantage of. Add the back doors and you have just expanded on the weaknesses, flaws and limitations, that would drive people to another form of encryption.
If we don't have Microsoft, who is the best contender to fill the gap? Linux is not a suitable desktop replacement, but does well on the server; MacOS means being able buying hardware from only one company and for the other contenders their maturity just isn't there.
I may not be a big fan of Microsoft, but I have to accept they fill the general day to day needs of corporations quite well.
I get a kick out of Slashdot because it's mostly software developers who can see how destructive patents are in their own field, but not every other field. Every field is "fast moving" if you're actually paying close attention.
I mention software because this is the field I know and understand the impact in. While it may be true in other fields too, I put in my vote where I see the damage. I'll let the experts in the other fields identify the damage that patents may or not be doing for their line of work.
That being said, anything that doesn't have a physical element or specific physical implementation should probably also be red flags in the patent process.
Patents shouldn't be provided for software, period. The quality of the patents are generally poor and they are often patenting something that already exists somewhere. In the end in fast moving field, patents are more of hindrance than a benefit.
You'd be surprised. A couple of links, for you to look at:
- http://www.internetsociety.org...
- http://www.internetsociety.org...
One shows the uptake and the other shows the stumbling block are the apps.
You are right about the size being off a little, though you do confirm the point on scanning. I suppose I was going with best case for comparison?
See RFC 7157 - IPv6 Multihoming without Network Address Translation
Trying to not support two things, is why cell phone companies are planning on going IPv6 with NAT64/DNS64. It is also why all iOS 9 apps must support IPv6. Thus approach allows them to optimise their infrastructure for IPv6 and only deal with IPv4 on the border.
Nothing is stopping anyone from staying IPv4 internally, but if you can't speak to that IPv6 service outside your network, then you'll look pretty stupid. At least get a web proxy, that deals with IPv6 externally, if you don't want to deal with the setup internally.
You know how big an IPv6 subnet is? Think of scanning the whole IPv4 address space and then you are close. Between IPv6 privacy extensions and DHCPv6, you can reduce the scope of scanning. Also, with a firewall in place, that scanning shouldn't even be possible.
The biggest barrier to IPv6 adoption has been people not sitting down and adding themselves what is the native IPv6 way of dealing withings and saying it is a security risk. The biggest risk is putting off the work.
Case In point: I recently faced an issue where some users were having connectivity issues. All health checks looked good. Turns out the issue was down to not having an IPv6 strategy. These users were already on IPv6 and some of the cache servers at various providers had AAAA entries, but no IPv6 on the web server, or did have IPv6 on the server, but was badly configured. Because of the lack of IPv6 strategy, there were no operational health checks on the IPv6 status. We didn't look good to these customers, because business, and even ops, thought IPv6 wasn't important - oops.