While I personnaly do not consider people blogging, to be business entities, I do not make up the rules. Whether or not the rule is flawed here is not the point, until said rule is changed people will have to abide by it. I consider a blog by a corporate entity an extension of the business they are running or services they are providing.
That being said, there should be some common sense involved when enforcing it based on the amount of income a blog generates. In the case of those referenced in to article, making them pay seems a little ridiculous.
I think the OP of this particular thread was referring to AGPS, which will function just fine on its own using the GPS satellites, however, requires a data stream (ie from a cell tower somewhere) for the locational data relating to where the satellites are in orbit (Almanac data I believe is what its called)
Some phones (My android Galaxy S for example), can function perfectly fine on its own, but will take ages to get a sat lock, some of the cheaper phones, might not function at all.
There is more to GPS then just talking with the Satellites.
This has been hashed out all over the intarwebs....
The state law of the entity or individual you are calling is the one that needs to be followed, so if you are a 1 party notification, and you call someone in a 2 party notification state, you have to notify them that you are recording the call.
However, one thing that seems to go back and forth, and no one seems to agree on, is that when you call an entity, say customer service at a bank, you get the recording that your call is being recorded, the person initiating the call already knows they are being recorded, and you are being notified as well that the call is being recorded, do you have to notify the other individual that you are recording the call, since all parties involved know its being recorded, the only difference is where it is being recorded.
Many places have policies that state they terminate the call if they are notified that they are being recorded.. kind of a double standard there.
I used to own a hybrid... the gas savings over the regular model is minimal, atleast in the Camry range. There are plenty of non hybrid vehicles (read: diesel) that get great mileage.
Also.... I bought the hybrid so I can use the HOV lanes in VA:)
Now.. I drive a C63... if I am going to be stuck in a car for 3 to 4 hours a day.. I damn well am going to have a fun car.
To get to the museum, you have to take the Route 32 exit towards Fort Meade, which actually ends at the employee entrance, if you accidentally miss the turn (to either the museum or the visitor entrance), you end up at the scary gates to the base, who then make you pull into a special area, where you are then surrounded by scary looking Chevy suburbans (atleast that was the case for me, I missed the exit...) who then search you vehicle, get all your information and run a background check, and if all goes well, escort you to the correct exit and send you on your way...
Oddly enough, I went the other way around about 6 months ago because I wanted a better implementation of ZFS and iSCSI. Freebsd's implementation is far behind OSOL, and iscsi is not even close to being functional in 8. iscsi works in 7, but zfs does not.
It's unfortunate, but I see OSOL dieing a slow horrible death at the hands of Oracle.
His might not be able to do 155.. but mine most certainly is (AMG C63), and regardless of his own vehicle restrictions and limits, his point is still valid.
Actually, by default, the computer, or mechanical mechanisms in ALL cars in the US are limited to 155mph. That is a government mandate. While many companies will remove said limit if requested (generally the sports/super car dealerships), by default, they are limited. Then again, there are not that many generic cars capable of doing 155mph (no matter what the speedo says)
So this is a poor comparison, one is a corporate limit designed to make money for Apple in this case, the other, is a gov mandate for supposed safety reasons (that in of itself is debatable, but off topic here)
It goes a little beyond just targeting advertising, it is a slippery slope, what next, injecting not just your zip, but your entire address into every packet, and handing that info over to whomever wants to pay for it.
Well guess what, regardless of what info you are getting from me, they are using that info for a profit, and what am I getting out of it, you can bet they are not going to drop their prices in any way from the additional revenue they are generating by selling this data.
No, the data and information about me is mine, if they want to profit from it, I want a percentage, be that discounted service, or a check in the mail.
While I may or may not be able to block said targeted advertising, I can guaranty that I will explicitly boycott any companies that use such services like this to target me. I do the same thing with telemarketers and those people who leave door tags on my door. If I want something, I will go find it.
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The security personnel are in charge of maintaining the health of the network and its related assets from a Security standpoint.
The problem with monitoring employees, is that you find people enforcing their own beliefs and requirements with what they think is inappropriate. That results in various personnel interpreting the rules differently, which is unfair to the people being monitored.
Also, its not our job to monitor what people do, its up to the management structure of those people to make sure they are being productive and doing their jobs. Only when what a person puts the network at risk, should security personnel ever get involved.
As I understand it, chipset makers license the technology. Those chipsets are then incorporated into whatever product is being made, be that phones, pda's, laptops, etc etc.
So in effect, the CSIRO wants to be be paid by the chipset makers, and then by the companies that use those chipsets, seems greedy.
This is the reason I switched from FBSD to OSOL.. what you said above.. in my 16 Disk Supermicro chassis.. I am disappointed in Oracle.. I While freebsd has support for ZFS, its a number of revisions behind, and can be unstable.
iscsi works well in FBSD 7.x, but not in 8.x at all, zfs works reasonably stable in 8.x, but barely functional in 7.x... makes it a pain in the ass and I am now using nfs for my VM server instead of iscsi...
Seriously, woodworking uses inherently dangerous equipment. Can you imagine whats next, lets sue X name router company because that sharp ass bit spinning at 18k rpm, removes all your flesh.. guess what, there is no saw stop tech for routers, or planers, or thickness planers.. and those all can do way more damage then a table saw.....
The system is designed just fine (except for the occasional trigger on wet or damp woods). It's not exactly easy to stop a blade rotating at a few thousand RPM in an instant, the time it takes a finger to be lopped off. So the current method of jamming an aluminum block into the blade to stop it instantly is really the only way.
As for cutting metal.. thats not what a table saw is designed for.
That is not correct, the equipment is placed on the telco side of the gov entities connection where it comes into the facility.
The only traffic being inspected, is what is coming and going to said gov entity, nothing more.
The original Einstein program was based on the silk analysis tool suit developed (and open source) by CMU, then second edition of the program used a commercial tool that sucked horribly, it was slow when you started creating different network groups to separate the traffic based on each individual org unit within the gov entity.
As for how it works, well the idea is situational awareness, the entity implementing (atleast with regards to 1 and 2) the program got access to all data, the data sent to DHS was netflow (version 1) and header info, and the first 16 bytes of data to determine the type of traffic (catches tunneled traffic).
From a situational awareness aspect, the idea while to see what was hitting a single entity is useful, when you set the program up in say all civilian gov agencies, you get a much better view of attacks that may be hitting a number of gov entities.
I take offense at you putting Comcast and Fios in the same sentence:)
Just kidding, I hate them both.. but FIOS is an awesome service (while verizon is only slightly less high on my hate list).
I know alot of people on both (I have FIOS), as for getting a cable card from them, 2 days and it was done, try doing that with comcast, it will take months.
The DVR's on both are either Scientific Atlanta (which I think is Cisco owned now), or Motorola, both are absolute pieces of shit, most people complain about them all the time, especially the guide data which is frequently wrong. That is where Tivo seems to excel, there have been very few times (DC Metro Area), that my Tivo guide data was wrong, and that is usually due to very short notice political events (presidential speeches etc) preempting whatever was on.
My wife originally said hell no to getting a new tivo (we had 2 tivo's at the time but they were non cable card SD versions when I had directv) as the price tag was around $800 for the S3 at the time. 5 minutes of trying to use the Motorola box that came with FIOS got me an angry call from my wife, a dent in the wall from where the remote hit it.. and an order to buy the S3 on the way home.
Just go peruse broadband reports FIOS forums, filled with complaints ont eh box, frequent lock ups, guide data wrong, guide data right but DVR still does not record whatever show you have schedule, recorded shows dissapearing, no page up and page down on the remote (seriously.. how could they overlook that.. there are like 500+ channels....) and it was slow.. very very slow... And those were just my issues...
While I will admit my S3 Tivo is somewhat slow to respond, it has never let me down on its sole function, recording crap for myself and my wife to watch, it does that, and it does it well. We will gladly pay slightly more for something that works as opposed to paying a rental fee for something that does not (not to mention Verizon customizes everything they touch with eye bleeding red and ads all over the place.
My XBMC (I tried mythtv, just do not like it) box runs on a little netbook with nvidia ion chipset for hardware hd. Back end is another story, storage is dual quad core cpu's, 16G ram, and currently running opensolaris using zfs on 8 500TB drives, and 2 1TB drives (soon to add 6 more):)
but while it serves media, its also a backup server, and iscsi server for my vmware lab machine at home. Way way way more expensive than any Tivo costs:)
One reason is that you require a cable card, and currently the only capture cards that support cable card are oem based and only work under Vista or Windows 7 (and possibly XP Media Center Edition).
I do have an S3, I like it (although it is dog slow sometimes). For media, I have an Xbox360, ps3 or XBMC which I use as my media server.
But for TV.. the Tivo is the way to go if you do not want to use the supplied cable box (which from verizon.. is absolute garbage)
Based on recent tragedies in Haiti. If your just offering to provide local general volunteer services, approach your local charitable organizations that provide those types of volunteer services and let them direct you.
If you are considering volunteer work in disaster areas, please.. please, do not do it. There are professionals trained in those types of things, the last thing they need is for a group of volunteers who went to help out, suddenly requiring rescuing of their own. After the main disaster cleanup is done, and the areas are safe, then offer yourself up as a volunteer, but till then, stay out of dangerous areas.
You might not have issues, but I most definitely do. The host based gaming sucks, I get dropped all the time, I get host migration errors constantly... about every 3 or 4 games, and if the host player decides to leave mid game, I usually end up getting punted completely.
The issue of course if how my network is setup, standard NAT, nothing special. Their solution of enabling pnp on my router is a joke. Since my router is actually an openbsd box running pf, there really is no solution. Yes I opened up a bunch of ports and setup port forwarding (there is no way in hell I am going to do static nating for my ps3 which is another one of their solutions.
They need to resolve the issues, I do enjoy the game, but its hard to play with a good group of random people when I occasionally come across them for more then a few games before I have to join the match making queue again.
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You are equating genocide... with the rules of business.. seriously.. there is something wrong with you...
I'm sure I will get flamed for this..
While I personnaly do not consider people blogging, to be business entities, I do not make up the rules. Whether or not the rule is flawed here is not the point, until said rule is changed people will have to abide by it. I consider a blog by a corporate entity an extension of the business they are running or services they are providing.
That being said, there should be some common sense involved when enforcing it based on the amount of income a blog generates. In the case of those referenced in to article, making them pay seems a little ridiculous.
I think the OP of this particular thread was referring to AGPS, which will function just fine on its own using the GPS satellites, however, requires a data stream (ie from a cell tower somewhere) for the locational data relating to where the satellites are in orbit (Almanac data I believe is what its called)
Some phones (My android Galaxy S for example), can function perfectly fine on its own, but will take ages to get a sat lock, some of the cheaper phones, might not function at all.
There is more to GPS then just talking with the Satellites.
This has been hashed out all over the intarwebs....
The state law of the entity or individual you are calling is the one that needs to be followed, so if you are a 1 party notification, and you call someone in a 2 party notification state, you have to notify them that you are recording the call.
However, one thing that seems to go back and forth, and no one seems to agree on, is that when you call an entity, say customer service at a bank, you get the recording that your call is being recorded, the person initiating the call already knows they are being recorded, and you are being notified as well that the call is being recorded, do you have to notify the other individual that you are recording the call, since all parties involved know its being recorded, the only difference is where it is being recorded.
Many places have policies that state they terminate the call if they are notified that they are being recorded.. kind of a double standard there.
Not sure why you were modded a troll for that...
But yes.. I do drive a 6.2L V8 car :) its fun...
I used to own a hybrid... the gas savings over the regular model is minimal, atleast in the Camry range. There are plenty of non hybrid vehicles (read: diesel) that get great mileage.
Also.... I bought the hybrid so I can use the HOV lanes in VA :)
Now.. I drive a C63... if I am going to be stuck in a car for 3 to 4 hours a day.. I damn well am going to have a fun car.
To get to the museum, you have to take the Route 32 exit towards Fort Meade, which actually ends at the employee entrance, if you accidentally miss the turn (to either the museum or the visitor entrance), you end up at the scary gates to the base, who then make you pull into a special area, where you are then surrounded by scary looking Chevy suburbans (atleast that was the case for me, I missed the exit...) who then search you vehicle, get all your information and run a background check, and if all goes well, escort you to the correct exit and send you on your way...
Moral of the story.. don't miss the exit...
Oddly enough, I went the other way around about 6 months ago because I wanted a better implementation of ZFS and iSCSI. Freebsd's implementation is far behind OSOL, and iscsi is not even close to being functional in 8. iscsi works in 7, but zfs does not.
It's unfortunate, but I see OSOL dieing a slow horrible death at the hands of Oracle.
It's also not the manufacturer, its government mandates and regulations.
His might not be able to do 155.. but mine most certainly is (AMG C63), and regardless of his own vehicle restrictions and limits, his point is still valid.
Actually, by default, the computer, or mechanical mechanisms in ALL cars in the US are limited to 155mph. That is a government mandate. While many companies will remove said limit if requested (generally the sports/super car dealerships), by default, they are limited. Then again, there are not that many generic cars capable of doing 155mph (no matter what the speedo says)
So this is a poor comparison, one is a corporate limit designed to make money for Apple in this case, the other, is a gov mandate for supposed safety reasons (that in of itself is debatable, but off topic here)
It goes a little beyond just targeting advertising, it is a slippery slope, what next, injecting not just your zip, but your entire address into every packet, and handing that info over to whomever wants to pay for it.
Well guess what, regardless of what info you are getting from me, they are using that info for a profit, and what am I getting out of it, you can bet they are not going to drop their prices in any way from the additional revenue they are generating by selling this data.
No, the data and information about me is mine, if they want to profit from it, I want a percentage, be that discounted service, or a check in the mail.
While I may or may not be able to block said targeted advertising, I can guaranty that I will explicitly boycott any companies that use such services like this to target me. I do the same thing with telemarketers and those people who leave door tags on my door. If I want something, I will go find it.
The security personnel are in charge of maintaining the health of the network and its related assets from a Security standpoint.
The problem with monitoring employees, is that you find people enforcing their own beliefs and requirements with what they think is inappropriate. That results in various personnel interpreting the rules differently, which is unfair to the people being monitored.
Also, its not our job to monitor what people do, its up to the management structure of those people to make sure they are being productive and doing their jobs. Only when what a person puts the network at risk, should security personnel ever get involved.
As I understand it, chipset makers license the technology. Those chipsets are then incorporated into whatever product is being made, be that phones, pda's, laptops, etc etc.
So in effect, the CSIRO wants to be be paid by the chipset makers, and then by the companies that use those chipsets, seems greedy.
This is the reason I switched from FBSD to OSOL.. what you said above.. in my 16 Disk Supermicro chassis.. I am disappointed in Oracle.. I While freebsd has support for ZFS, its a number of revisions behind, and can be unstable.
iscsi works well in FBSD 7.x, but not in 8.x at all, zfs works reasonably stable in 8.x, but barely functional in 7.x... makes it a pain in the ass and I am now using nfs for my VM server instead of iscsi...
Seriously, woodworking uses inherently dangerous equipment. Can you imagine whats next, lets sue X name router company because that sharp ass bit spinning at 18k rpm, removes all your flesh.. guess what, there is no saw stop tech for routers, or planers, or thickness planers.. and those all can do way more damage then a table saw.....
Where does it stop.
The system is designed just fine (except for the occasional trigger on wet or damp woods). It's not exactly easy to stop a blade rotating at a few thousand RPM in an instant, the time it takes a finger to be lopped off. So the current method of jamming an aluminum block into the blade to stop it instantly is really the only way.
As for cutting metal.. thats not what a table saw is designed for.
Sawstop mechanisms have been known to trigger when using slightly damp or wet woods, it can get expensive..
That is not correct, the equipment is placed on the telco side of the gov entities connection where it comes into the facility.
The only traffic being inspected, is what is coming and going to said gov entity, nothing more.
The original Einstein program was based on the silk analysis tool suit developed (and open source) by CMU, then second edition of the program used a commercial tool that sucked horribly, it was slow when you started creating different network groups to separate the traffic based on each individual org unit within the gov entity.
As for how it works, well the idea is situational awareness, the entity implementing (atleast with regards to 1 and 2) the program got access to all data, the data sent to DHS was netflow (version 1) and header info, and the first 16 bytes of data to determine the type of traffic (catches tunneled traffic).
From a situational awareness aspect, the idea while to see what was hitting a single entity is useful, when you set the program up in say all civilian gov agencies, you get a much better view of attacks that may be hitting a number of gov entities.
Thats about all I will say ont eh subject.
I take offense at you putting Comcast and Fios in the same sentence :)
Just kidding, I hate them both.. but FIOS is an awesome service (while verizon is only slightly less high on my hate list).
I know alot of people on both (I have FIOS), as for getting a cable card from them, 2 days and it was done, try doing that with comcast, it will take months.
The DVR's on both are either Scientific Atlanta (which I think is Cisco owned now), or Motorola, both are absolute pieces of shit, most people complain about them all the time, especially the guide data which is frequently wrong. That is where Tivo seems to excel, there have been very few times (DC Metro Area), that my Tivo guide data was wrong, and that is usually due to very short notice political events (presidential speeches etc) preempting whatever was on.
My wife originally said hell no to getting a new tivo (we had 2 tivo's at the time but they were non cable card SD versions when I had directv) as the price tag was around $800 for the S3 at the time. 5 minutes of trying to use the Motorola box that came with FIOS got me an angry call from my wife, a dent in the wall from where the remote hit it.. and an order to buy the S3 on the way home.
Just go peruse broadband reports FIOS forums, filled with complaints ont eh box, frequent lock ups, guide data wrong, guide data right but DVR still does not record whatever show you have schedule, recorded shows dissapearing, no page up and page down on the remote (seriously.. how could they overlook that.. there are like 500+ channels....) and it was slow.. very very slow... And those were just my issues...
While I will admit my S3 Tivo is somewhat slow to respond, it has never let me down on its sole function, recording crap for myself and my wife to watch, it does that, and it does it well. We will gladly pay slightly more for something that works as opposed to paying a rental fee for something that does not (not to mention Verizon customizes everything they touch with eye bleeding red and ads all over the place.
Slightly off topic.. and while I do have a Tivo..
My XBMC (I tried mythtv, just do not like it) box runs on a little netbook with nvidia ion chipset for hardware hd. Back end is another story, storage is dual quad core cpu's, 16G ram, and currently running opensolaris using zfs on 8 500TB drives, and 2 1TB drives (soon to add 6 more) :)
but while it serves media, its also a backup server, and iscsi server for my vmware lab machine at home. Way way way more expensive than any Tivo costs :)
One reason is that you require a cable card, and currently the only capture cards that support cable card are oem based and only work under Vista or Windows 7 (and possibly XP Media Center Edition).
I do have an S3, I like it (although it is dog slow sometimes). For media, I have an Xbox360, ps3 or XBMC which I use as my media server.
But for TV.. the Tivo is the way to go if you do not want to use the supplied cable box (which from verizon.. is absolute garbage)
Based on recent tragedies in Haiti. If your just offering to provide local general volunteer services, approach your local charitable organizations that provide those types of volunteer services and let them direct you.
If you are considering volunteer work in disaster areas, please.. please, do not do it. There are professionals trained in those types of things, the last thing they need is for a group of volunteers who went to help out, suddenly requiring rescuing of their own. After the main disaster cleanup is done, and the areas are safe, then offer yourself up as a volunteer, but till then, stay out of dangerous areas.
You might not have issues, but I most definitely do. The host based gaming sucks, I get dropped all the time, I get host migration errors constantly... about every 3 or 4 games, and if the host player decides to leave mid game, I usually end up getting punted completely.
The issue of course if how my network is setup, standard NAT, nothing special. Their solution of enabling pnp on my router is a joke. Since my router is actually an openbsd box running pf, there really is no solution. Yes I opened up a bunch of ports and setup port forwarding (there is no way in hell I am going to do static nating for my ps3 which is another one of their solutions.
They need to resolve the issues, I do enjoy the game, but its hard to play with a good group of random people when I occasionally come across them for more then a few games before I have to join the match making queue again.