I bet the University they select will be
one that receives grants from DOJ. If not,
then there would certainly be some other
financial/political conflict of interest. After
all, Every university receives copious ammounts of funding from the US Government.
Actually, it wont be the University as much as the professors at the university. There *has* to be at least one professor in the DOJ's pocket somewhere.
That sounds alot like the ROLM phone system at Virginia Tech. Each dorm room had ONE extension, which included a digital phone and a 19,200kb serial line. You had to enter commands like "c 53223" to connect to another station. It was possible to set up a SLIP connection by connecting to a special connection they set up. This system led to the proliferation of warez BBS's like you wouldn't believe
Unfortunately, there was no way to connect a real modem to the system to dial outside, and the University only had 2400 baud dialouts. I made a "J-box" which connected to the handset jack and allowed you to connect a conventional phone and/or modem. We were able to get 14.4k dialout that way. (this was in 1992).
It's only a matter of time before the Yuppies discover Mars as the Next Great Place to Live(TM). Before you know it there will be strip malls, chain resturaunts with 3hr wait every night of the week (doesen't anyone *make* dinner anymore?), ugly houses 3 feet apart, traffic, traffic, and more traffic.
Eventually the Yuppies will discover Mars, and they *will* destroy it.
I'm tired of seeing feature bloat and lazy coding produce SLOW as molassas (on anyting but the latest and greatest machines) browsers.
Here's a quick summary for you new folks:
Mosaic 1.2: "fast" but barely functional web browser. Mosaic 2.0-2.4: Marginally better than 1.x Mosaic 2.6/2.7b: Improved, jpeg support but by this time Netscape was out and blew mosaic away. Netscape 0.99-1.12 Cool as shit compared to Mosaic, talbes, forms, included basic newsreader pretty darn fast on any machine. Netscape 2.x: Faster than 1.x, Java support, completely redone newsreader some minor improvements Netscape 3.x: Fastest Netscape ever, table background color support, great newsreader. About the only modern shortcomings are javascript incompatibilities, and lack of IMAP support in messenger. Netscape 4.x: Slower than any other netscape version, bloated, buggy. Has PNG and IMAP support, and better email client but crappy newsreader.
Mozilla performs for me about as well as Netscape4.x. Why can't they get the performance to match Netscape 3.x? Do we really need all those silly features?
That's actually not a bad idea. Remember the purpose of a screen saver is to prevent burn-in and/or prevent casual snooping. You might not want to waste any CPU cycles on it.
Now we just need to hunt down and execute the person reponsible for 0.5 second Green shutoff on monitors. Couldn't it have been at least 30-60 seconds???
The conclusion was that RFC1918 suggests that ISP's prevent reserved addresses from being forwarded, but does not require filtering. "should take measures" != "MUST NOT"
Also, any packet based ACL is simply impractical on core routers, except for the very fastest (like Juniper M40). Sure, they use ACL's temporarally to fix/debug problems, but leaving them there full time would degrade performance unacceptably.
A similarly disturbing problem is when http POST requests expire from your browsers cache. Hitting the back button gives you the "page expired, repost form data" box.
Never use POST unless you need to (like not showing sensitive info in the location bar and web log).
Alex is an amazing bird. He can recognize banannas and cherries and when he want's an apple he says "bananna-erry" (apples are like a bananna on the inside and a cherry on the outside). Thus demonstrating enough intelligence to overcome his limited vocabulary. African Greys have about a 500 word vocabulary limit.
Has anyone looked at the picture of this thing? It's huge for a web appliance. It looks like over a foot deep. One of the things that makes the Netpliance I-Opener so attractive is it's incredibly slim form factor.
This thing reminds me of the first handheld cellular phones. Remember how Radio Shack used to photograph them almost head on to hide the fact that they were 6 inches deep?
Actually, that's false. The reason LEGO was cool when you were 5 is because it stimulates the creative part of the brain. That's the same reason it's cool at 25, but at 25 it's far more important to do it. In the process of "growing up" (16-24 yrs) most of your imagination and creative energy was methodically destroyed. Adult use of LEGO is an excellent way to regain those lost abilities. LEGO is not a toy (though parents treat it as such) it's a well thought out and powerful system.
Most peering (even among the big boys) is based on traffic equity. If you are pushing more than twice the traffic you are pulling from a peer you will probably have to pay a "settlement" fee, based on the imbalance. All backbone operators try very hard to maintain a balanced traffic profile with their peers.
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Here's a list of keywords to block the most offensive content:
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Microsoft
MPAA
RIAA
Lawyer
Janet Reno
Apple
DoubleClick
I'm sure there are others but this is a good start.
Where did you get the idea I was anti-gov't? I'm actually pro-gov't. The reality is that academic research is skewed by government funding.
In the end, only Congress and the courts will be able to check the powers of the DOJ, which is reaching beyond the 4th ammendment with Carnivore.
The court of public opinion will only be satisfied with complete public disclosure and verification that their rights aren't being violated.
I bet the University they select will be
one that receives grants from DOJ. If not,
then there would certainly be some other
financial/political conflict of interest. After
all, Every university receives copious ammounts of funding from the US Government.
Actually, it wont be the University as much as the professors at the university. There *has* to be at least one professor in the DOJ's pocket somewhere.
ICANN has been rigged since it's inception. It exists solely to protect Trademark, Government,
and big business interests that conrol the board.
The facts have been painfully documented by Gordon Cook of the Cook Report Here, Here and regularly in his Monthly reports.
That sounds alot like the ROLM phone system at Virginia Tech. Each dorm room had ONE extension, which included a digital phone and a 19,200kb serial line. You had to enter commands like "c 53223" to connect to another station. It was possible to set up a SLIP connection by connecting to a special connection they set up. This system led to the proliferation of warez BBS's like you wouldn't believe
Unfortunately, there was no way to connect a real modem to the system to dial outside, and the University only had 2400 baud dialouts. I made a "J-box" which connected to the handset jack and allowed you to connect a conventional phone and/or modem. We were able to get 14.4k dialout that way. (this was in 1992).
That is amazingly accurate except for one thing:
Mosaic 1.0 did not render jpegs. It put an
NCSA logo box in their place.
I wonder if they take into account which netblocks have been issued by regional registries like ARIN
(semi-OT)
It's only a matter of time before the Yuppies discover Mars as the Next Great Place to Live(TM). Before you know it there will be strip malls, chain resturaunts with 3hr wait every night of the week (doesen't anyone *make* dinner anymore?), ugly houses 3 feet apart, traffic, traffic, and more traffic.
Eventually the Yuppies will discover Mars, and they *will* destroy it.
I'm tired of seeing feature bloat and lazy coding produce SLOW as molassas (on anyting but the latest and greatest machines) browsers.
Here's a quick summary for you new folks:
Mosaic 1.2: "fast" but barely functional web browser.
Mosaic 2.0-2.4: Marginally better than 1.x
Mosaic 2.6/2.7b: Improved, jpeg support but by this time Netscape was out and blew mosaic away.
Netscape 0.99-1.12 Cool as shit compared to Mosaic, talbes, forms, included basic newsreader pretty darn fast on any machine.
Netscape 2.x: Faster than 1.x, Java support, completely redone newsreader some minor improvements
Netscape 3.x: Fastest Netscape ever, table background color support, great newsreader. About the only modern shortcomings are javascript incompatibilities, and lack of IMAP support in messenger.
Netscape 4.x: Slower than any other netscape version, bloated, buggy. Has PNG and IMAP support, and better email client but crappy newsreader.
Mozilla performs for me about as well as Netscape4.x. Why can't they get the performance to match Netscape 3.x? Do we really need all those silly features?
That's actually not a bad idea. Remember the purpose of a screen saver is to prevent burn-in and/or prevent casual snooping. You might
not want to waste any CPU cycles on it.
Now we just need to hunt down and execute the person reponsible for 0.5 second Green shutoff on monitors. Couldn't it have been at least 30-60 seconds???
I love their Echelon icon.
I could use it on my website as sort of an "anti-TrustE" logo. Or how about "feedback powered by Echelon".
This just came up on the NANOG mailing list.
The conclusion was that RFC1918 suggests that ISP's prevent reserved addresses from being forwarded, but does not require filtering.
"should take measures" != "MUST NOT"
Also, any packet based ACL is simply impractical on core routers, except for the very fastest (like Juniper M40). Sure, they use ACL's temporarally to fix/debug problems, but leaving them there full time would degrade performance unacceptably.
Try This Link. Some ISP's might be caching really *really* old DNS data.
A similarly disturbing problem is when http POST
requests expire from your browsers cache. Hitting the back button gives you the "page expired, repost form data" box.
Never use POST unless you need to (like not showing sensitive info in the location bar and web log).
Alex is an amazing bird. He can recognize banannas and cherries and when he want's an apple he says "bananna-erry" (apples are like a bananna on the inside and a cherry on the outside). Thus demonstrating enough intelligence to overcome his limited vocabulary. African Greys have about a 500 word vocabulary limit.
How exactly does the FBI expect to tap an OC-192?
(or OC-48 or OC-3 for that matter)? This has
to be total BS.
They are probably worried about the reverse
problem, i.e. NTT sniffing packets too and from
US Government servers and networks.
It's not the end of my Internet.
Has anyone looked at the picture of this thing? It's huge for a web appliance.
It looks like over a foot deep. One of the things that makes the Netpliance
I-Opener so attractive is it's incredibly slim form factor.
This thing reminds me of the first handheld cellular phones.
Remember how Radio Shack used to photograph them almost
head on to hide the fact that they were 6 inches deep?
Those are generally called POOPs, or Pieces
that could have been made Out of Other Pieces.
Actually, that's false. The reason LEGO was cool when you were 5 is because it stimulates the creative part of the brain. That's the same reason it's cool at 25, but at 25 it's far more important to do it. In the process of "growing up" (16-24 yrs) most of your imagination and creative energy was methodically destroyed.
Adult use of LEGO is an excellent way to regain those lost abilities. LEGO is not a toy (though parents treat it as such) it's a well thought out and powerful system.
Actually, LEGO already makes those, for display outside their Outlet stores.
Most peering (even among the big boys) is based on traffic equity. If you are pushing more than twice the traffic you are pulling from a peer you will probably have to pay a "settlement" fee, based on the imbalance. All backbone operators
try very hard to maintain a balanced traffic profile with their peers.
Perhaps now would be a good time to add my Solar Status Monitor as a slashbox.
You can find the Madonna single on GnuTella,
just search for "madonna music"
This list completely ignores one of the most common security flaws in computer systems: Cleartext passwords sent over the wire.
Even using ssh is not enough if you still use ftp or imap. Assume those accounts are compromised.