I work in Oxford at the moment, and one thing is for sure, next time I get into a cab and the taxi driver wants to have a conversation I now have a very good reason to ignore him and exercise my right to silence.
As someone who has worked for an ISP this comes as no surprise.
At the end of the day we know what the customers want - they want free films, free music and pirated software. The Pirate Bay provides the means to locate such stuff.
While the most prolific users are a problem, ISPs provide access to this medium - if we block the P2P sharing sites then our customers will go elsewhere, and in a market which is highly competitive we cannot afford to lose such a large section of our market.
I dropped out of University and eventually persued vocational and on-the-job training. I now earn the equivalent of US $175,000 a year and consider myself reasonably comfortable. While getting a degree could be considered a nice 'lift' up the ladder early on, graduates are often considered rather green in industry and often the type of people who won't like to get their hands dirty - to be honest, in these economic times, that isn't what employers want!
Yes, but if you check out the top500.org - the list of the 500 known fastest 'supercomputers' you'll see that they all achieve their benchmark through parallelizing their tasks across multiple cores.
I think it is safe to say that all modern supercomputers achieve their 'power' in this way - I've not seen any terahertz single-core/processor systems on the horizon, and don't expect to see them.
Our CEO at a company I used to work for sent out an all-employee mail detailing a salary freeze for all employees and voluntary redundancies. Moments later the CFO sent out an email to his accounts team detailing that their pay-rise would not be affected and that they should not consider redundancy... needless to say, the hapless git hit reply-all...
This particular one has free wireless, and there is no way to identify a particular system accessing the net to a room. In fact, without staying here I could still probably sit in the car park or hotel lobby and access the internet from there. There's even a PC in the lobby with anonymous access from it.
Granted it does use a "Hotspot" login page (just need to check a checkbox and click login), so I suppose that could be modified to have someone provide a room number or PIN etc...
Changing the way things work though will invariably be a pain though, especially if you need to access the Internet over the weekends and the authentication system breaks down or something else goes wrong... (as seems to be quite common with the systems in many hotels). Reception tend to look at you with rather blank faces when this happens, and it usually isn't fixed until a weekday.
Leave the university and do a "code rewrite", as long as they can't prove you copy and pasted the work that you did under their employment, they have little legal standing and unless this is a real programming gem I doubt they will send the lawyers after you... just look at what happenned to SCO.
Not that anyone will necessarily listen to me, though obviously they must be listening to Rupert.
I have not bought a newspaper, watched Sky (for anything other than football) for the best part of seven years. Why the hell do they think that I might get my credit card out in order to listen what they have to say, they should pay me for the benefit of listening to them.
You may be interested to know that we (as an ISP) get these types of messages on a daily basis to our abuse accounts:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
Re: Unauthorized Use of NBC Universal Properties Notice ID: XXXXXXXXX 2 Mar 2008 14:07:33 GMT
Please be advised that NBC Universal and/or its subsidiary and affiliated companies (collectively, NBC Universal) are the owners of exclusive rights protected under copyright law and other intellectual property rights in many motion pictures and television programs, including the title(s) listed below (the NBC Universal Properties). NBC Universal diligently enforces its rights in its motion pictures.
It has come to our attention that Blahblah Plc is the service provider for the IP address listed below, from which unauthorized copying and distribution (downloading, uploading, file serving, file "swapping" or other similar activities) of NBC Universal's motion picture(s) listed below is taking place. We believe that the Internet access of the user engaging in this infringement is provided by Blahblah Plc or a downstream service provider who purchases this connectivity from Blahblah Plc.
This unauthorized copying and distribution constitutes copyright infringement under applicable national laws and international treaties. Although various legal and equitable remedies may be available to NBC Universal as a result of such infringement, NBC Universal believes that the entire Internet community benefits when these matters are resolved cooperatively. We urge you to take immediate action to stop this infringing activity and inform us of the results of your actions. We appreciate your efforts toward this common goal.
Please be advised that this letter is not intended to be a complete statement of the facts or law as they may pertain to this matter or of NBC Universal's positions, rights or remedies, legal or equitable, all of which are specifically reserved.
Please send us a prompt response indicating the actions you have taken to resolve this matter, making sure to reference the Notice ID number above in your response.
As you can expect from any "abuse" email contact at an ISP, most of these go ignored, besides - The USA has no jurisdiction here.
In theory Token Ring was really reliable, because it got over the CSMA/CD problems of ethernet.
Unfortunately, someone developed a Token Ring card that had a tendency to not always always forward the 'token' and, as such, many Network admins were left with the task of 'inserting the token' into the MAU ring about once a week.
Meanwhile Ethernet got faster and switches replaced hubs where CSMA/CD ceased to be a problem, Token Ring died.
With regard to the story, in my opinion I guess this is about using the same switches with different VLANs for avionics and passenger systems - pretty widely tested in commercially environments when correctly deployed as being safe, though there are some examples of mis-configuration which could lead to disastrous consequences.
The adequate solution would be to utilise seperate switches for avionics and passenger networks. If there is a requirement for one-way communication between the two systems, then I would use a one-way optical fibre and UDP for e.g. GPS information.
Well, crossing a border involves leaving one country and entering another.
Even if you fasttrack your entry in/out of the US at the US side of the border, you're still going to have to queue at the other end, because I doubt the other countries will have the same system and seriously doubt the US will share any 'encryption keys' that it might use.
so how is that the USs fault? It's not the US's fault, that was never said.
However, for the good of the network as a whole the US should be taking a more active stance in encouraging these countries participation in Internet development affairs in general.
As it is, I see a xenophobic US stance, by many so called informed and presumably intelligent individuals in this discussion, that the network should be US run, US controlled etc...
Stances such as 'It's our Internet', 'We can't trust other countries', 'most countries in Europe prosecute people for thought crimes.' (I couldn't believe I actually read that one!).
Come on guys, wake up, smell the coffee, stop watching so much TV and don't believe all the crap that you're force fed everyday by your media.
Well, take this traceroute example from Spain to Saudi Arabia -
# traceroute www.nic.net.sa traceroute to www.nic.net.sa (86.111.192.10), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets ...
6 ge-1-0-0-4.r00.mdrdsp01.es.bb.gin.ntt.net (81.19.97.134) 21.455 ms 21.567 ms 21.551 ms
7 p16-2-0-1.r22.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.5.17) 48.011 ms 47.994 ms 48.084 ms
8 ae-0.r23.londen03.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.4.86) 48.070 ms 48.057 ms 48.159 ms
9 p64-1-0-0.r20.nycmny01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.254) 112.603 ms 112.117 ms 112.214 ms 10 p16-0.sprint.nycmny01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.9.174) 116.553 ms 116.752 ms 116.385 ms 11 sl-bb24-nyc-11-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.13.185) 116.261 ms 116.371 ms * 12 sl-bb27-nyc-10-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.13.174) 112.265 ms 112.243 ms 112.241 ms 13 sl-gw35-nyc-15-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.13.39) 112.209 ms 112.189 ms 112.171 ms 14 sl-telec6-136681-0.sprintlink.net (160.81.172.170) 136.379 ms 136.357 ms 136.366 ms 15 pal6-pal8-racc1.pal.seabone.net (195.22.218.211) 248.549 ms 248.538 ms 248.440 ms 16 customer-side-saudi-telecom-kacst-4-sa-pal6.pal.seabone.net (195.22.197.190) 236.435 ms 235.944 ms 233.302 ms 17 vlan1.ruh-acc4.isu.net.sa (212.138.112.23) 223.492 ms 220.088 ms 219.564 ms 18 citc.ruh-cust.isu.net.sa (212.26.19.230) 280.758 ms 280.745 ms 280.845 ms
Hops 11,12,13,14 look like US hops to me.
Now my geography isn't excellent, but if you were flying to Saudi Arabia from Spain, would you connect in New York?
Unless its encrypted, you have no privacy online. Just ask any SMTP admin, or for that matter, anyone with a packet sniffer. This means that privacy means absolutely zilch when it comes to infrastructure. (Note that how individual sites handle your personal information is another story entirely...) Very true, and even if they can't decrypt your encrypted traffic, they still know who's talking to who, and that can be pretty useful for them as well. Sometimes you might be better leaving it unencrypted to ensure you don't arouse false suspicion.
I work for a small ISP and can tell you that the largest carrier of Asian traffic is NTT and all their infrastructure goes from east to west from a European point of view.
There is very little in the way of west to east Internet infrastructure east of the turkey and ukraine.
Check your BGP routing table and you will see I am right.
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I really don't understand why we hear from this guy as much as we do...
Heh... 32Gb of RAM in my W520...
I've had one month off since July 2010, plus two weeks this Festive season just past.
For the first year I averaged 50 hours a week, since September 2011 I've done a straight 37.5 hours per week and no more.
I have however worked in IT in one way or another for over 20 years, any many of those was as a corporate slave.
It's not a job, it's not employment, it's business. I sincerely doubt HR even know he's done work there.
I'm a contractor, I go in to solve their problems, US $90 an hour, when I'm done, I'm done. The Invoice is in the post.
I never have to interface with HR, I'm not looking for Health Insurance, Gym membership or any of that stuff, leave that too the employees.
If I had a PhD then it would probably go quite a way for me, might not get a potential employee too far, but then that's not what PhDs are for!
I work in Oxford at the moment, and one thing is for sure, next time I get into a cab and the taxi driver wants to have a conversation I now have a very good reason to ignore him and exercise my right to silence.
This is fine, until Linux put the Cake in it's sauce code, then Microsoft sued for patent infringement.
As someone who has worked for an ISP this comes as no surprise.
At the end of the day we know what the customers want - they want free films, free music and pirated software. The Pirate Bay provides the means to locate such stuff.
While the most prolific users are a problem, ISPs provide access to this medium - if we block the P2P sharing sites then our customers will go elsewhere, and in a market which is highly competitive we cannot afford to lose such a large section of our market.
I dropped out of University and eventually persued vocational and on-the-job training. I now earn the equivalent of US $175,000 a year and consider myself reasonably comfortable.
While getting a degree could be considered a nice 'lift' up the ladder early on, graduates are often considered rather green in industry and often the type of people who won't like to get their hands dirty - to be honest, in these economic times, that isn't what employers want!
Yes, but if you check out the top500.org - the list of the 500 known fastest 'supercomputers' you'll see that they all achieve their benchmark through parallelizing their tasks across multiple cores.
I think it is safe to say that all modern supercomputers achieve their 'power' in this way - I've not seen any terahertz single-core/processor systems on the horizon, and don't expect to see them.
Our CEO at a company I used to work for sent out an all-employee mail detailing a salary freeze for all employees and voluntary redundancies. Moments later the CFO sent out an email to his accounts team detailing that their pay-rise would not be affected and that they should not consider redundancy... needless to say, the hapless git hit reply-all...
Sometimes it's not necessarily what you're communicating to a server that is interesting, but which servers you are communiating with!!
I happen to be typing this from a Dutch Hotel.
This particular one has free wireless, and there is no way to identify a particular system accessing the net to a room. In fact, without staying here I could still probably sit in the car park or hotel lobby and access the internet from there. There's even a PC in the lobby with anonymous access from it.
Granted it does use a "Hotspot" login page (just need to check a checkbox and click login), so I suppose that could be modified to have someone provide a room number or PIN etc...
Changing the way things work though will invariably be a pain though, especially if you need to access the Internet over the weekends and the authentication system breaks down or something else goes wrong... (as seems to be quite common with the systems in many hotels). Reception tend to look at you with rather blank faces when this happens, and it usually isn't fixed until a weekday.
Leave the university and do a "code rewrite", as long as they can't prove you copy and pasted the work that you did under their employment, they have little legal standing and unless this is a real programming gem I doubt they will send the lawyers after you... just look at what happenned to SCO.
Ditto
Not that anyone will necessarily listen to me, though obviously they must be listening to Rupert.
I have not bought a newspaper, watched Sky (for anything other than football) for the best part of seven years. Why the hell do they think that I might get my credit card out in order to listen what they have to say, they should pay me for the benefit of listening to them.
second that, transparent plastic bags are for wimps.
When the security guard asks me if I have any liquids I tell him my body is 70% water.
Carry my shampoo and toothpaste on a plane all the time when I travel with just hand luggage.
Since when did any shampoo manufacturer sell shampoo in less than 250ml containers?
Fuck the regulations, all a load of crap.
In theory Token Ring was really reliable, because it got over the CSMA/CD problems of ethernet.
Unfortunately, someone developed a Token Ring card that had a tendency to not always always forward the 'token' and, as such, many Network admins were left with the task of 'inserting the token' into the MAU ring about once a week.
Meanwhile Ethernet got faster and switches replaced hubs where CSMA/CD ceased to be a problem, Token Ring died.
With regard to the story, in my opinion I guess this is about using the same switches with different VLANs for avionics and passenger systems - pretty widely tested in commercially environments when correctly deployed as being safe, though there are some examples of mis-configuration which could lead to disastrous consequences.
The adequate solution would be to utilise seperate switches for avionics and passenger networks. If there is a requirement for one-way communication between the two systems, then I would use a one-way optical fibre and UDP for e.g. GPS information.
He said 'madge' !!!
You just took me back twelve years!
Well, crossing a border involves leaving one country and entering another.
Even if you fasttrack your entry in/out of the US at the US side of the border, you're still going to have to queue at the other end, because I doubt the other countries will have the same system and seriously doubt the US will share any 'encryption keys' that it might use.
Pretty useless really, so what's the point?
However, for the good of the network as a whole the US should be taking a more active stance in encouraging these countries participation in Internet development affairs in general.
As it is, I see a xenophobic US stance, by many so called informed and presumably intelligent individuals in this discussion, that the network should be US run, US controlled etc...
Stances such as 'It's our Internet', 'We can't trust other countries', 'most countries in Europe prosecute people for thought crimes.' (I couldn't believe I actually read that one!).
Come on guys, wake up, smell the coffee, stop watching so much TV and don't believe all the crap that you're force fed everyday by your media.
Now my geography isn't excellent, but if you were flying to Saudi Arabia from Spain, would you connect in New York?
I work for a small ISP and can tell you that the largest carrier of Asian traffic is NTT and all their infrastructure goes from east to west from a European point of view.
There is very little in the way of west to east Internet infrastructure east of the turkey and ukraine.
Check your BGP routing table and you will see I am right.