And just about every other country restricts incoming visitors.
Whoopdefuckingdoo. We weren't discussing restrictions on visitors (though the US is also one of the most restrictive countries in that respect) we were discussing countries restricting where their citizens travel to.
I live in New Zealand, and we're yet another country that has no restrictions on where people may travel. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade can advise against travelling to certain countries because of threats to personal safety, but they cannot place travel bans. If I choose to visit North Korea, or Afghanistan, or even Cuba, nothing will be said. I won't be detained at the airport on my return, except possibly to make sure that I've not got any biological items that might be a hazard to our horticultural or agricultural industries, and even that would be because one of the cute little beagles alerts on my bags.
If you want to make ridiculous suggestions, go ahead. Be prepared to be shot down, however.
The US is one of the most restrictive countries to enter, and the existence of laws forbidding citizens from visiting certain countries makes a mockery of the supposed freedom of movement the Constitution says that you shall have.
that having enough money to afford to live in a gated community doesn't mean you necessarily have a clue. Gee, what a bloody shock.
Are we going to start seeing lawsuits against the manufacturers of WiFi hardware that ships with weak security configurations? That's about the only eventuality which will trump the need for companies to cater to the stupidi^Wlowest common denominator.
If you're so confident that your dissertation has academic merit, why don't you put your name to your post?
1) No arguments, mainly because I don't know about the architectures of the Cisco and Juniper PEs used.
2) For a post-grad student, you don't seem to know much about IPv4. Almost 17 million addresses taken by each of 127/8 and 10/8. Another million gone with 172.16/12. 192.168/16 rounds that all out to about 36 million. Almost one percent of the address space gone, just on reserved ranges. The experimental ranges take some more space again. Then there're all the network and broadcast addresses, with CIDR making that problem worse, even while it does solve the issue of giving organisations blocks of space that're wildly in excess of their requirements.
3) I dunno who makes your NIC, but all mine have a 48-bit MAC.
IPv6 does nice aggregation. Routers only need to know about their immediate network, everything else they see as an aggregation. So rather than knowing about every/64, they'll just see a bunch of/48 (or less) netmasks, and the routers for those networks worry about breaking it down to the/64s when they get sent the packts.
Plus, RAM's cheap. Even the Kingston stuff you need for Ciscos. Couple cheap memory with the very good route summarisation in the IPv6 spec, and it's a non-issue.
4) The current IP network has these restrictions. With jumbo frame and the various other techniques now in existence, you don't think it's possible that part of the migration to IPv6 will be to throw a few more bytes into the packet size?
I can't belive you got a +4 (Informative) for that load of tripe. No wonder people have no respect for the moderators!
Whangamata? I realise that Auckland's growing fast, but I didn't know that the Coromandel was now part of Auckland.
Why not Packawankers, or Chowick? They're also east of Mission Bay.
Have you tried saving a document in native Office 97 format and opening it in Office 95? You will find that you end up with a very mangled document.
Documents produced in the native Office 97 formats do not open correctly in earlier versions. This breaks previous functionality. That you can save in the old versions does not correct the flawed native functionality.
I'll ignore Access, since each new version seems to break compatibility with the previous version.
this is like saying "volunteer work is causing unemployment for people who wish to do the same work for pay"
There are actually people out there who see things that way.
New Zealand has a terribly political Fire Service (we have a single, national fire prevention/protection body, basically), and the animosity between the pros and the vollies can get incredibly nasty. The pros view the vollies as wannabes who will happily take their jobs - Ignoring the fact that a large number of the vollies make more than any two of the pros combined. Plus, of course, ignoring the fact that the vollies exist in only two situations. 1) Locations without large enough populations to justify permanent fire crews, or 2) as an adjunct to the pros, because there's a need for backup but not enough population to justify another full professional crew.
This animosity degenerates to things like pros shitting in the boots of the vollies who work out of the same station. Never mind that those same vollies might well end up saving the life of that oh-so-mature "professional" fire fighter.
Never underestimate the ability of people to take altruism and spin it into a personal attack on themselves.
I'd still like to see a complete OS with apps that all use licenses that aren't picky about what they link to, who's making money, or whether or not Microsoft gets to benefit from open-source innovations
So, what you're really saying is that you want to use FreeBSD! Seriously, most of the apps that ship are under the BSD licence, with a few exceptions - GCC being the most obvious one, but since GCC is pretty loosy-goosey in its licence, who cares? The only other biggies are the office suites, and Evolution. Most other stuff you can find software which uses the FreeBSD licence, or something similarly open.
FWIW, the GPL is not a "free" licence, only an open one. You are not allowed to do with GPL'd software as you wish, which does not fit the dictionary definition of free. Technically the BSD licence isn't either, but attribution is a heck of a lot closer than the GPL will ever get.
And, yes, I do understand the negative side of the BSD licence, but I still think it is the "free-er" of the two choices.
Was leaving my last job as a sys admin/NOC engineer at an ISP. Good handle on IP, routing, switching, general Cisco stuff, and one of the few people in NZ to know how to drive AS5300s.
Recruiter advertises for an ISP network engineer - Not for my company, since we didn't use Sun - and turned me down because I don't have a CCNA. If the recruiter had a clue he would've at least let the client reject my CV (which detailed my knowledge of all sorts of ISP-type stuff) rather than rejecting it himself. He might even have managed to close the job a month sooner (that was how long it took before the ad stopped appearing in the paper.
Sadly, tech recruiters are often nothing more than recruiters who know the difference between RAM and HDD. No technical experience required.
On the one hand, you have a ruling which is potentially good for competitive offerings.
Don't knock competition. I'd love competition in the local loop, and you guys really have no idea just how lucky you are to even have a choice of cable or DSL.
But, on the other hand, you have a ruling which allows in the thugs of the Department of Justice. And that is a huge down side. We're all familiar with the stories of the various barely-legal taps that FBI have been indulging in under the Patriot Act. I'd be terrified at the idea that they could use that same bullshit legislation to place sniffers onto a shared medium with my 'net traffic on it.
Still, that's a good market - Start a cable ISP that does customer-to-company encryption. That way the Fibbies can't sniff the traffic off the wire, they have to go to the trouble of getting a warrant and sniffing off a switch at your office.
Of course, if Shrub gets elected again you can be sure that such an ISP model would be out-lawed - Entirely on the grounds of fighting terrorism, obviously.
In many countries they don't have as many privacy laws as the US does.
The US has privacy laws? You mean the ones that allow companies to sell the information they collect on you, without your permission? And the ones that have no requirement for companies to protect said information against theft by outside agencies?
Yes, those're mighty impressive laws.
If you want to see privacy law, try looking at New Zealand's Privacy Act, or some of the European legislation. The US may as well not bother pretending they have any privacy legislation, because all it does is lull people into a false sense of security.
A number of people have been burned buying used Cisco equipment because Cisco demands that you buy a new license for the "software". This is despite the fact that it doesn't work without the hardware, and the original buyer already paid for both.
Cisco only require you to buy a new software licence if you want support. If you're happy to operate without support then you can get by quite happily without paying Cisco a cent.
Of course, if you have a hardware failure then you're up shit creek with leaky gumboots.
An accquaintance has just bought some second-hand Cisco 5000 Catalyst switches. He's buying several, trading off the cost of them by not getting a formal support agreement - He'll keep one which is fully functional as a parts store, forego the cost of a support contract, and save butt loads. If he gets really stuck on a software problem, first-name-terms contacts at Cisco and the main national Cisco support vendor can probably give him a hint.
Technically a consulate or embassy is the United States.
I'm involved with the NZ Fire Service, and we've had talks about the sanctity of diplomatic missions and vehicles. Including a rather amusing anecdote from an officer who used to work in our capital and was called to a fire in a building with an NSA data centre in it - The fire was in the data centre. He bowled on up the stairs, and was greeted at the door by a marine with a gun who said "You're not going in there!" "Oh yes I am." "No, you're not! *punctuated with motions with said M16*" "OK, so maybe I'm not." They were eventually allowed in, under armed escort, and with the admonition that they saw nothing, asked nothing, and sure as hell did nothing other than spray their extinguishers and leave.
I've also had to deal with trying to run cable through a building riser in a building with a consulate on one floor. No way, no how, could we run cable through that riser without permission from the Japanese government, since the riser ran through the consulate's area.
Take a look at this paper relating to secure erasure of data on magnetic media.
It's a bit old (written in '96), but I don't think that disk technology has progressed any further in that time - HDDs from that age still work in computers these days.
The short version is that Gutmann discovered that the only way to remove data so securely that it's beyond any kind of retrieval is to use a magnet so strong that it physically destroys the disk. Anything less is not 100$ secure - TEM gets around most things, particularly as track densities increase and bit over-lap becomes much more of a problem.
No, in the US it's "fiber". Countries that actually speak English spell it "fibre".
Don't presume to foist your linguistic fuckups onto the rest of us, thanks very much.
I often have to sign an NDA, sometimes just to get a job interview.
You what!? A job interview (certainly a first or second interview rather than a hiring interview) is absolutely not the place to be disclosing information under NDA. No way, no how.
I could understand the NSA in the bad ol' days getting people to sign NDAs that they wouldn't discuss the fact that they were applying to work at the NSA (telling people you worked there would get you fired, so telling people you had applied sure wouldn't get you hired), but no private company should be in any such situation. Hell, the NSA doesn't fire people for saying they work there these days.
Any company that presents an NDA as part of the interview process has some very, very serious issues. Not even classified contracting should fall under NDA, since if you don't have clearance they can't tell you about it and if you do have clearance you can't discuss it with anyone who doesn't have clearance - And the number of people who have security clearances is pretty damn small.
If it works with paedophiles, why not track bank robbers to ensure they only use ATMs? How about B&E artists?
I think that repeat burglary/robbery offenders SHOULD be tagged like this. Numerous anecdotes exist describing the drop in property crime when various people are picked up for yet another B&E - My neighbourhood had 23 B&E incidents in the space of a fortnight, attributed to two people who were just recently arrested. Funnily enough, there's been a major drop in B&E in the area in the last couple of weeks.
If the government tags people who have shown that they can't keep their hands off the property of others, it would make a big difference to how long it takes the Police to clear robberies. "Oh, Bob entered that house at 1437, and left at 1500, and the occupants were out all afternoon."
I'm far less comfortable with this idea for sex offenders, paedophiles or no, but for people who make a living out of unlawfully being in other peoples' houses I say bring it on.
As the RIAA's "sue your customer" campaign begins to run into stiffening opposition and serious procedural obstacles it may be time to think about a "Plan B". A small levy on storage media, say a penny a megabyte, would be more lucrative than trying to extract 60 million dollars from a music obsessed, file sharing, thirteen year-old.
That sounds real cheap and all, until you consider that there are 100 pennies in a dollar.
Personally, I don't like the idea of paying $8 for a blank CD-R, with $7.50 of that being RIAA-tax.
Likewise, I'd be telling RIAA to go fuck themselves, preferably with a pallet full of HDDs, if they wanted to throw a $2,000 tax onto my new 200GB HDD - Yes, do the maths. 0.01*200,000=2000. Even if it were 1/10th of a cent (0.001), that still doubles, roughly, the cost of that 200GB HDD.
I would just like to say a big "FUCK YOU" to the author of that article, for not doing the sums first and giving RIAA ideas. Coz they can easily sell those ideas to their pets in the US government and then other countries (such as NZ, where I live) will be more suscpetible to lobbying by our local RIAA clones for similar measures.
This is actually a very good point. Look no further than the Cisco certifications.
CCNA is a bootcamp cert. Getting one requires some book learning, and maybe understanding of how to work with a CLI.
CCNP could, in theory, be gained without ever touching a router "in the real world"[TM], but your chances of finding anyone with a paper CCNP are somewhere between zero and two-thirds of fuckall.
CCIE, though, is actually worthy of the Engineer designation at the end. Unless you were John Doe, it would not be possible for someone to gain CCIE without some serious time working "in the real world"[TM]. I know a goodly number of CCIEs, and only one of them passed the lab first time - Most university engineering courses would be reworked if they failed > 80% of all people who were taking them for the first time.
Microsoft could have easily included USB support in an NT service pack. Same with hyperthreading for 2k.
Then people would be bitching about them adding new functionality through serivce packs rather than using them to fix bugs. Much as I dislike MS, they're in a DIYD-DIYD situation. They can not release technology updates in service packs, and then people whinge about how they don't support x technology that was released before the OS came out, or they can release technology updates in which case people berate them for using service packs for something other than fixing problems.
MS could release versions that have the new technology enabled, like Win95-C came with USB support, but they do tend to have a policy of not allowing for retroactive upgrade to the latest technology. I can't blame them for this, since they do have to make money of their software.
I'm not sure if the Australians have actually realised the significance of their push for a Free Trade Agreement *derisive snort* with the US. What it actually means to them is that the Yanks will bully them into passing laws similar to the DMCA and their obscene IP protection laws. Since NZ (where I live) is discussing trying to get an FTA with the US too, I hope the Aussies tell the US where to stick their restrictive and absurd IP laws.
If this bill fails, it's easier for other countries to tell the US that their laws are so stupid that the only people using them are themselves. If the EU folds, then the result of the world just becomes a row for xxAA to bulldoze with the support of the US government.
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Flamebait? What the fuck?!
Someone got a bad case of the anti-BSDs or something?
I live in New Zealand, and we're yet another country that has no restrictions on where people may travel. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade can advise against travelling to certain countries because of threats to personal safety, but they cannot place travel bans. If I choose to visit North Korea, or Afghanistan, or even Cuba, nothing will be said. I won't be detained at the airport on my return, except possibly to make sure that I've not got any biological items that might be a hazard to our horticultural or agricultural industries, and even that would be because one of the cute little beagles alerts on my bags.
If you want to make ridiculous suggestions, go ahead. Be prepared to be shot down, however.
The US is one of the most restrictive countries to enter, and the existence of laws forbidding citizens from visiting certain countries makes a mockery of the supposed freedom of movement the Constitution says that you shall have.
OCTAVE is an acronym, not a name.
Operationally Critical Threat, Asset, and Vulnerability Evaluation
Are we going to start seeing lawsuits against the manufacturers of WiFi hardware that ships with weak security configurations? That's about the only eventuality which will trump the need for companies to cater to the stupidi^Wlowest common denominator.
You forgot 6) I get all my music from Cowboy Neal.
If you're so confident that your dissertation has academic merit, why don't you put your name to your post?
1) No arguments, mainly because I don't know about the architectures of the Cisco and Juniper PEs used.
2) For a post-grad student, you don't seem to know much about IPv4. Almost 17 million addresses taken by each of 127/8 and 10/8. Another million gone with 172.16/12. 192.168/16 rounds that all out to about 36 million. Almost one percent of the address space gone, just on reserved ranges. The experimental ranges take some more space again. Then there're all the network and broadcast addresses, with CIDR making that problem worse, even while it does solve the issue of giving organisations blocks of space that're wildly in excess of their requirements.
3) I dunno who makes your NIC, but all mine have a 48-bit MAC.
IPv6 does nice aggregation. Routers only need to know about their immediate network, everything else they see as an aggregation. So rather than knowing about every
Plus, RAM's cheap. Even the Kingston stuff you need for Ciscos. Couple cheap memory with the very good route summarisation in the IPv6 spec, and it's a non-issue.
4) The current IP network has these restrictions. With jumbo frame and the various other techniques now in existence, you don't think it's possible that part of the migration to IPv6 will be to throw a few more bytes into the packet size?
I can't belive you got a +4 (Informative) for that load of tripe. No wonder people have no respect for the moderators!
Whangamata? I realise that Auckland's growing fast, but I didn't know that the Coromandel was now part of Auckland. Why not Packawankers, or Chowick? They're also east of Mission Bay.
Documents produced in the native Office 97 formats do not open correctly in earlier versions. This breaks previous functionality. That you can save in the old versions does not correct the flawed native functionality.
I'll ignore Access, since each new version seems to break compatibility with the previous version.
New Zealand has a terribly political Fire Service (we have a single, national fire prevention/protection body, basically), and the animosity between the pros and the vollies can get incredibly nasty. The pros view the vollies as wannabes who will happily take their jobs - Ignoring the fact that a large number of the vollies make more than any two of the pros combined. Plus, of course, ignoring the fact that the vollies exist in only two situations. 1) Locations without large enough populations to justify permanent fire crews, or 2) as an adjunct to the pros, because there's a need for backup but not enough population to justify another full professional crew.
This animosity degenerates to things like pros shitting in the boots of the vollies who work out of the same station. Never mind that those same vollies might well end up saving the life of that oh-so-mature "professional" fire fighter.
Never underestimate the ability of people to take altruism and spin it into a personal attack on themselves.
FWIW, the GPL is not a "free" licence, only an open one. You are not allowed to do with GPL'd software as you wish, which does not fit the dictionary definition of free. Technically the BSD licence isn't either, but attribution is a heck of a lot closer than the GPL will ever get.
And, yes, I do understand the negative side of the BSD licence, but I still think it is the "free-er" of the two choices.
Recruiter advertises for an ISP network engineer - Not for my company, since we didn't use Sun - and turned me down because I don't have a CCNA. If the recruiter had a clue he would've at least let the client reject my CV (which detailed my knowledge of all sorts of ISP-type stuff) rather than rejecting it himself. He might even have managed to close the job a month sooner (that was how long it took before the ad stopped appearing in the paper.
Sadly, tech recruiters are often nothing more than recruiters who know the difference between RAM and HDD. No technical experience required.
Don't knock competition. I'd love competition in the local loop, and you guys really have no idea just how lucky you are to even have a choice of cable or DSL.
But, on the other hand, you have a ruling which allows in the thugs of the Department of Justice. And that is a huge down side. We're all familiar with the stories of the various barely-legal taps that FBI have been indulging in under the Patriot Act. I'd be terrified at the idea that they could use that same bullshit legislation to place sniffers onto a shared medium with my 'net traffic on it.
Still, that's a good market - Start a cable ISP that does customer-to-company encryption. That way the Fibbies can't sniff the traffic off the wire, they have to go to the trouble of getting a warrant and sniffing off a switch at your office.
Of course, if Shrub gets elected again you can be sure that such an ISP model would be out-lawed - Entirely on the grounds of fighting terrorism, obviously.
Yes, those're mighty impressive laws.
If you want to see privacy law, try looking at New Zealand's Privacy Act, or some of the European legislation. The US may as well not bother pretending they have any privacy legislation, because all it does is lull people into a false sense of security.
Of course, if you have a hardware failure then you're up shit creek with leaky gumboots.
An accquaintance has just bought some second-hand Cisco 5000 Catalyst switches. He's buying several, trading off the cost of them by not getting a formal support agreement - He'll keep one which is fully functional as a parts store, forego the cost of a support contract, and save butt loads. If he gets really stuck on a software problem, first-name-terms contacts at Cisco and the main national Cisco support vendor can probably give him a hint.
I'm involved with the NZ Fire Service, and we've had talks about the sanctity of diplomatic missions and vehicles. Including a rather amusing anecdote from an officer who used to work in our capital and was called to a fire in a building with an NSA data centre in it - The fire was in the data centre. He bowled on up the stairs, and was greeted at the door by a marine with a gun who said "You're not going in there!" "Oh yes I am." "No, you're not! *punctuated with motions with said M16*" "OK, so maybe I'm not." They were eventually allowed in, under armed escort, and with the admonition that they saw nothing, asked nothing, and sure as hell did nothing other than spray their extinguishers and leave.
I've also had to deal with trying to run cable through a building riser in a building with a consulate on one floor. No way, no how, could we run cable through that riser without permission from the Japanese government, since the riser ran through the consulate's area.
It's a bit old (written in '96), but I don't think that disk technology has progressed any further in that time - HDDs from that age still work in computers these days.
The short version is that Gutmann discovered that the only way to remove data so securely that it's beyond any kind of retrieval is to use a magnet so strong that it physically destroys the disk. Anything less is not 100$ secure - TEM gets around most things, particularly as track densities increase and bit over-lap becomes much more of a problem.
Don't presume to foist your linguistic fuckups onto the rest of us, thanks very much.
We're sorry, but because of the NDA we can't tell you :P
I could understand the NSA in the bad ol' days getting people to sign NDAs that they wouldn't discuss the fact that they were applying to work at the NSA (telling people you worked there would get you fired, so telling people you had applied sure wouldn't get you hired), but no private company should be in any such situation. Hell, the NSA doesn't fire people for saying they work there these days.
Any company that presents an NDA as part of the interview process has some very, very serious issues. Not even classified contracting should fall under NDA, since if you don't have clearance they can't tell you about it and if you do have clearance you can't discuss it with anyone who doesn't have clearance - And the number of people who have security clearances is pretty damn small.
If the government tags people who have shown that they can't keep their hands off the property of others, it would make a big difference to how long it takes the Police to clear robberies. "Oh, Bob entered that house at 1437, and left at 1500, and the occupants were out all afternoon."
I'm far less comfortable with this idea for sex offenders, paedophiles or no, but for people who make a living out of unlawfully being in other peoples' houses I say bring it on.
Personally, I don't like the idea of paying $8 for a blank CD-R, with $7.50 of that being RIAA-tax.
Likewise, I'd be telling RIAA to go fuck themselves, preferably with a pallet full of HDDs, if they wanted to throw a $2,000 tax onto my new 200GB HDD - Yes, do the maths. 0.01*200,000=2000. Even if it were 1/10th of a cent (0.001), that still doubles, roughly, the cost of that 200GB HDD.
I would just like to say a big "FUCK YOU" to the author of that article, for not doing the sums first and giving RIAA ideas. Coz they can easily sell those ideas to their pets in the US government and then other countries (such as NZ, where I live) will be more suscpetible to lobbying by our local RIAA clones for similar measures.
This is actually a very good point. Look no further than the Cisco certifications. CCNA is a bootcamp cert. Getting one requires some book learning, and maybe understanding of how to work with a CLI. CCNP could, in theory, be gained without ever touching a router "in the real world"[TM], but your chances of finding anyone with a paper CCNP are somewhere between zero and two-thirds of fuckall. CCIE, though, is actually worthy of the Engineer designation at the end. Unless you were John Doe, it would not be possible for someone to gain CCIE without some serious time working "in the real world"[TM]. I know a goodly number of CCIEs, and only one of them passed the lab first time - Most university engineering courses would be reworked if they failed > 80% of all people who were taking them for the first time.
MS could release versions that have the new technology enabled, like Win95-C came with USB support, but they do tend to have a policy of not allowing for retroactive upgrade to the latest technology. I can't blame them for this, since they do have to make money of their software.
I'm not sure if the Australians have actually realised the significance of their push for a Free Trade Agreement *derisive snort* with the US.
What it actually means to them is that the Yanks will bully them into passing laws similar to the DMCA and their obscene IP protection laws.
Since NZ (where I live) is discussing trying to get an FTA with the US too, I hope the Aussies tell the US where to stick their restrictive and absurd IP laws.
If this bill fails, it's easier for other countries to tell the US that their laws are so stupid that the only people using them are themselves. If the EU folds, then the result of the world just becomes a row for xxAA to bulldoze with the support of the US government.