Note though that the built in Mac apache is compiled in 64-bit mode but PHP always tries to compile to 32-bit mode. So if you try to upgrade the PHP module, you will get errors. The way around this is to force PHP to use the 64 bit architecture (but not darwin, you have to use a generic 64-bit), or recompile apache in 32 bit mode. You'll have to do the same for any shared modules that interact with Apache on the Mac.
You need to make a friend at the bank. That's the only secret you need to know. If you have a personal bank who you are sociable with, they will take care of you. IF you're one of those self-important dicks who believes the customer is always right, no one will ever go out of their way to help you. The banking world is run by people. End of story.
I just don't pay bills, that makes it pretty simple. Credit cards? Pft, save up for large purchases. Keep a nice emergency fund for even bigger stuff. Spend the money you save on interest on insurance for other likely stuff (auto warranty, etc.) that might go wrong. Utilities, pre-pay a year upfront using contract rates. You can call and ask them about it, they will even pay interest. Especially if it's a public utility. You can buy a utility bond and trade that for power.
I kindof found the bulky db15 connector on the side funny, but I guess you'd need some sort of adapter anyway. But if you had a lot of them you'd probably use a kvm and at that point you could move to a proprietary, thin, small, light connection.
Yeah, but how do they know if it's lensing or not (ie: should I keep this frame and use it in the enhancement)? So they have to have a baseline signal first, then know that there's distortion (in this case constructive distortion), pull that distortion out and use it to enhance the image.
This is the same principle used in noise cancellation filters. Except that they are extracting information from the distortion instead of dropping it. You can take the average of a signal with distortion and assume that the distortion is random, and throw out the random seeming bits of it. This aims to save the random stuff, and try to find a pattern within it (such as a face), then it probably uses that to enhance the real-time pixels.
I think there was a story on here about using still photos to enhance digital movies. The principle is probably the same, only the "still photo" is replaced by stuff that's inferred to be noise, but good noise (and possibly processed with a face algo).
No reason why you couldn't do this with radio also, they probably already do.
Yeah, I was exaggerating. Mudge was pretty good. But to say that he sold out the Internet to the Feds is pretty false. I mean, they built it, and the dudes at the NSA have long known about the intrinsic properties of BGP. BBN built a lot of it, actually, which is sort of ironic.
It is weird though that you saw them drop off the map (along with a lot of other high profile people) after 2001 and now a lot of them work for the Feds. But like I said, that's where the money is (or was).
Dude, l0pht aka @stake sold out in the early 2000's. Their only claim to fame was their work on the CdC "Back Orifice" and of course "l0phtcrack", which just tricked out LM passwords from cleartext, big deal. Everyone knows about BGP!
He (Munge) turned it into a deal, and now he works for BBN. That's where the money is (or has been). Just because someone was at Defcon once doesn't mean he's not working for the Feds. There are some benefits to working for the government.
It's nice how they've packaged this presentation but this is not news really.
I posted earlier but perhaps some sort of after-the-fact analysis of the tables using an archive (something like Route Views) could be used to figure out who's good and bad, without having to change the protocol.
BGP is what Internet routers use to tell each other what incoming traffic should be routed where. It isn't used for actual user data transmission.
Yeah, probably it's best to avoid the internet for sensitive traffic. And they do. They have their own copper, fiber, microwave, and satellite telcom system. Yes, some of it is leased from the telcos but I doubt if the packets come anywhere near the internet routers.
But not all governments have the luxury of that sort of system and I'm sure a lot of them use the internet to communicate globally. That's why we generously helped them put in all those undersea cables...
Oh, by the way, there are "private" companies with undersea fiber that are not peered to the internet, and no one knows about them. Some things you can't trust the telco with.
The last thing you should trust is the Internet. Even with encryption, the way it works is on implied trust relationships. So does DNS, and so does the public key infrastructure. As other posters mentioned, you are relying on your upstream provider to give you clean routing tables. The advertised routes need to be the real best route to a closer hop. And somewhere there are the root servers which have the master tables.
An interesting way to maybe catch them would be to analyze the BGP tables (archive them somewhere and actually get a real list of good hosts). I know there are projects such as Route Views which attempt to archive the routing tables. This might be a start. You would need to whitelist people though, or blacklist certain subnets, and it sort of defeats the point of the Internet being open.
Yeah, but they don't need to poison BGP to read our data, since they have access by the Tier 1 providers and telcos to the actual photons on the backbone fibers. And of course legal immunity now that they passed that bill.
Nay, this would best be used against other countries, where the NSA actually works.
This kind of "evidence" is typical of conspiracy theories, which have three hallmarks:
(1) Require remarkably smooth coordination between conspirators with no demonstrable ties and considerable reason to distrust each other.
Like, for instance, a random group of guys from the middle east..
(2) Require the conspirators to choose convoluted, uncertain, and risky means where more direct, more reliable and safer means would presumably be at their disposal.
Like for instance living in America for several years, taking flying lessons, and then hopefully taking control of an airliner full of hundreds of people with a KNIFE, and then, never having flown a plane, mind you, fly the gigantic airliner into a huge city of skyscrapers and successfully impact the plane into a cross section of several hundred feet, TWICE?
(3) Concoction and defense of dramatic "facts" that are either can't substantiated or are even (as here) demonstrably impossible.
Such as finding a perfect, unscathed copy of the attacker's passport in the wreckage?
so mccain needs to find a young, anti-abortion middle-class outsider who can go toe-to-toe with joe biden in a debate. good luck with that one.
Jeb Bush? Ha! Ha! Anyway, Obama is just the start of the new demographics of the players in the Government. Bill Clinton was widely recognized as the first "boomer" president. What we have experienced is the last gasp of the old guard, the military-industrial complex, before the forces of globalization rush in. America has been sold a long time ago to multi-national corporations. Ask yourself who owns all that national debt? Mostly large U.S. Corporations and other multi-national corporations (and governments). They need a world stage in which to operate, and conflicting political agendas in their various markets are not making things easy. Currency exchange alone is a real problem.
Military is outmodded, POLICE is the new military. And you can see that in Iraq. It's all about policing.
I think really this government will be the start of the opening of society, probably the formation of another new currency (in a few decades) and of course conflicts to putting down the few remaining pockets of government that haven't been bought by the corporations yet. After that there will be wars, but they'll be strictly population control, and no more of a match than professional wrestling.
I prefer the term astrospamming, turfing would imply a surface coating whereas spam is just lots of repeated messages, which is correct in this sense. The astro maybe doesn't make sense, but it serves to link the old, obsolete term from FOUR YEARS AGO with a new buzzword.
Anyone skilled in communications would know that this sort of campaign is useless. Your brain has filters which accept, and yes, remember a certain level of repetition. Soon after it stops at a certain threshold, like a cliche, for instance. I hope the O team is smart enough to stay out of this one. Major spam will just make M look like the extremely old man he is.
If you CHOOSE to work hard in America, and in a spirit of harmony, often that means working overtime, because there are so many other people willing to work overtime to get ahead. I guarantee that while the peer pressure might be the problem, the company will never ask an employee to work overtime; you will do it by choice. They can't fire you for not working overtime. And, if the contract states that there will be overtime, it's illegal.
However, the person who moves ahead is often a person who works more than what they are paid for. That's because in America we have the FREEDOM to work as much as we want. If this guy wanted to start his own computer company called "Crapple", with a little siluette of a poop on the front, he could. He's just a whiner. Guess what, when you are on the bottom rung of the ladder, or in charge of something big and important, it often takes more than 40 hours of work per week to get your work done. But he is getting an education and building his experience. I'm sure the experience he gained working for a design shop such as apple is PRICELESS. Slavery, pft, we should be so lucky. So now he's gone and thrown it all away because no company in California is every going to hire him. For what, a few grand of "lost wages"? Pft.
I haven't had any problems using any software that's somewhat mature. If you know how to use Unix, you can use almost any software out there. I mean, you only really need to know tar,./configure, make, make install, that's about it. Oh, and chgrp and chmod for permissions. And/etc is your config files. The rest just comes with experience. Everything is extremely usable; there is no wasted actions when using most unix programs I've seen. The problem is people see "usability" as being "shiny" which is not the same thing. Almost all of the comments I've seen so far have been about "shiny". If it's Usable, it DOES THE JOB. That's it.
If you want shiny, you move to MacOS X or Windows and you're going to pay for all of that design.
Exactly, and no reasonable court would allow a warrant unless they had definite probable cause to search. The government can't just search records for people they "think" might be breaking laws. That's very specific. Now, if they found a library book dropped at the scene of a murder, I would say they have probable cause to see who checked out book, because you might find the murderer. But getting information on a crime that hasn't happened "yet" is illegal. I could go and read books on making bombs just out of interest in high energy chemical reactions and not be a terrorist. But they could spend thousands of taxpayer dollars investigating every aspect of my life just to make sure I'm not a terrorist. That's the slippery slope. It's about MONEY more than FREEDOM.
This massive expansion of "homeland security" is wasteful of tax dollars because they are investigating thousands of people who haven't done anything. Not to mention building dossiers which I'm sure could be used for political means. But it's wasteful when they could be out solving other crimes that have happened. It's amazing that there's so little crime nowadays that they spend this much time trying to prevent things from happening. And the massive amount of money they are spending is not making people feel safer (the real goal). So lets reverse this and take a step back:
All of these policies were put in place during a frantic time when no one knew what was going to happen. Decisions made in a panic are often not the right ones. We need to review ALL of the policies made during the years of 2001-2005 (even if it takes years to review) and decide what we need to keep. There needs to be a massive PUBLIC effort to review the policies and decisions that were made, now that we "have time". And we need to cut costs where we can, because this stuff is extremely expensive and they can't just have a blank check out of fear anymore. If you added up the cost of 9/11, just in terms of government expansion, it's probably well over a trillion. And for what? You can't save people--we're all going to die anyway. The real idea is to maintain American (and global) confidence in the American economy, which is ALL THAT MATTERS if we are here for our purpose--to support future generations. But I question whether these current wasteful policies have really increased confidence all that much! If anything, they have hurt our confidence even more, because they have been wasting so much money on no-bid contracts and just JUNK like these pointless "preemptive" investigations.
If there's evidence of a crime, a court will issue a warrant. If there isn't, they cannot seize the data, because there's no warrant. That's why there are warrants and that's the law and that's IT. There are good reasons for these laws and this will get struck down when the ACLU goes after those agents and their boss.
Again, we need to review ALL the policy decisions made during this time period again with clear heads. Otherwise, we may do our children great injustice.
Dude, they already CAN. In most cases all of the internet traffic flows through phone lines called "the backbone". The phone company owns them. The phone company has just recently recieved immunity in law for letting them (the government) listen illegally. Unless your traffic is going to a server in the same room, it is most likely passing through one of the major peer exchanges (read that article, please) which are these rooms, usually at a phone company building. They are almost always phone company buildings because they used to need huge buildings for their switches but now an exchange is only about 10 feet, and most of that is the connectors. So they have tons of room. Plus they used to need tons of batteries and backups. Now they use "SONET" rings and frame relay and stuff which rely on local (on-site) power backup. Your home line is probably still standard, but business lines account for the vast majority of active phone lines nowadays.. So the phone company leases "rack space" to these "ISPs" who basically also lease Copper or Fiber from the phone company to move their data on. Unless they've pulled their own copper or fiber or use some other expensive WAN technology like microwave (which is easily listened to, also), they go thru the phone company.
So, they turn on a span port on the peer point router (usually a Cisco 12000 type router), and just copy traffic off, probably using some sophisticated filtering technology. It's a lot of data, but they only check when they want to. Yep, in almost any large phone company datacenter in most metro areas there's this little "room"...... anyway, EVERYONE knows about the room, and it doesn't matter. The government is more than just a few guys. Sure, they are fucking corrupt, but really this country is run by us. If we don't get out and vote, and choose the right leaders, NOT just by listening to Cable News but by actually READING the testimony in Congress or the Senate, looking at the voting records of your representatives, GETTING involved. You can actually MEET your senator if you're in a small state, and you can almost definitely meet your congressperson. I think they should probably expand congress again, but that's neither here nor there.
So, you can keep the fear and paranoia stuff, but that's SO 2005. We are looking for solutions now. Maybe a better faster networking technology would help us communicate even more effectively, and find those solutions more quickly.
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Note though that the built in Mac apache is compiled in 64-bit mode but PHP always tries to compile to 32-bit mode. So if you try to upgrade the PHP module, you will get errors. The way around this is to force PHP to use the 64 bit architecture (but not darwin, you have to use a generic 64-bit), or recompile apache in 32 bit mode. You'll have to do the same for any shared modules that interact with Apache on the Mac.
You need to make a friend at the bank. That's the only secret you need to know. If you have a personal bank who you are sociable with, they will take care of you. IF you're one of those self-important dicks who believes the customer is always right, no one will ever go out of their way to help you. The banking world is run by people. End of story.
I just don't pay bills, that makes it pretty simple. Credit cards? Pft, save up for large purchases. Keep a nice emergency fund for even bigger stuff. Spend the money you save on interest on insurance for other likely stuff (auto warranty, etc.) that might go wrong. Utilities, pre-pay a year upfront using contract rates. You can call and ask them about it, they will even pay interest. Especially if it's a public utility. You can buy a utility bond and trade that for power.
Don't forget it has a Spacewire interface.
I kindof found the bulky db15 connector on the side funny, but I guess you'd need some sort of adapter anyway. But if you had a lot of them you'd probably use a kvm and at that point you could move to a proprietary, thin, small, light connection.
Yeah, but how do they know if it's lensing or not (ie: should I keep this frame and use it in the enhancement)? So they have to have a baseline signal first, then know that there's distortion (in this case constructive distortion), pull that distortion out and use it to enhance the image.
This is the same principle used in noise cancellation filters. Except that they are extracting information from the distortion instead of dropping it. You can take the average of a signal with distortion and assume that the distortion is random, and throw out the random seeming bits of it. This aims to save the random stuff, and try to find a pattern within it (such as a face), then it probably uses that to enhance the real-time pixels.
I think there was a story on here about using still photos to enhance digital movies. The principle is probably the same, only the "still photo" is replaced by stuff that's inferred to be noise, but good noise (and possibly processed with a face algo).
No reason why you couldn't do this with radio also, they probably already do.
Yeah, I was exaggerating. Mudge was pretty good. But to say that he sold out the Internet to the Feds is pretty false. I mean, they built it, and the dudes at the NSA have long known about the intrinsic properties of BGP. BBN built a lot of it, actually, which is sort of ironic.
It is weird though that you saw them drop off the map (along with a lot of other high profile people) after 2001 and now a lot of them work for the Feds. But like I said, that's where the money is (or was).
Dude, l0pht aka @stake sold out in the early 2000's. Their only claim to fame was their work on the CdC "Back Orifice" and of course "l0phtcrack", which just tricked out LM passwords from cleartext, big deal. Everyone knows about BGP!
He (Munge) turned it into a deal, and now he works for BBN. That's where the money is (or has been). Just because someone was at Defcon once doesn't mean he's not working for the Feds. There are some benefits to working for the government.
It's nice how they've packaged this presentation but this is not news really.
I posted earlier but perhaps some sort of after-the-fact analysis of the tables using an archive (something like Route Views) could be used to figure out who's good and bad, without having to change the protocol.
BGP is what Internet routers use to tell each other what incoming traffic should be routed where. It isn't used for actual user data transmission.
Yeah, probably it's best to avoid the internet for sensitive traffic. And they do. They have their own copper, fiber, microwave, and satellite telcom system. Yes, some of it is leased from the telcos but I doubt if the packets come anywhere near the internet routers.
But not all governments have the luxury of that sort of system and I'm sure a lot of them use the internet to communicate globally. That's why we generously helped them put in all those undersea cables...
Oh, by the way, there are "private" companies with undersea fiber that are not peered to the internet, and no one knows about them. Some things you can't trust the telco with.
The last thing you should trust is the Internet. Even with encryption, the way it works is on implied trust relationships. So does DNS, and so does the public key infrastructure. As other posters mentioned, you are relying on your upstream provider to give you clean routing tables. The advertised routes need to be the real best route to a closer hop. And somewhere there are the root servers which have the master tables.
An interesting way to maybe catch them would be to analyze the BGP tables (archive them somewhere and actually get a real list of good hosts). I know there are projects such as Route Views which attempt to archive the routing tables. This might be a start. You would need to whitelist people though, or blacklist certain subnets, and it sort of defeats the point of the Internet being open.
Yeah, but they don't need to poison BGP to read our data, since they have access by the Tier 1 providers and telcos to the actual photons on the backbone fibers. And of course legal immunity now that they passed that bill.
Nay, this would best be used against other countries, where the NSA actually works.
This kind of "evidence" is typical of conspiracy theories, which have three hallmarks:
(1) Require remarkably smooth coordination between conspirators with no demonstrable ties and considerable reason to distrust each other.
Like, for instance, a random group of guys from the middle east..
(2) Require the conspirators to choose convoluted, uncertain, and risky means where more direct, more reliable and safer means would presumably be at their disposal.
Like for instance living in America for several years, taking flying lessons, and then hopefully taking control of an airliner full of hundreds of people with a KNIFE, and then, never having flown a plane, mind you, fly the gigantic airliner into a huge city of skyscrapers and successfully impact the plane into a cross section of several hundred feet, TWICE?
(3) Concoction and defense of dramatic "facts" that are either can't substantiated or are even (as here) demonstrably impossible.
Such as finding a perfect, unscathed copy of the attacker's passport in the wreckage?
so mccain needs to find a young, anti-abortion middle-class outsider who can go toe-to-toe with joe biden in a debate. good luck with that one.
Jeb Bush? Ha! Ha! Anyway, Obama is just the start of the new demographics of the players in the Government. Bill Clinton was widely recognized as the first "boomer" president. What we have experienced is the last gasp of the old guard, the military-industrial complex, before the forces of globalization rush in. America has been sold a long time ago to multi-national corporations. Ask yourself who owns all that national debt? Mostly large U.S. Corporations and other multi-national corporations (and governments). They need a world stage in which to operate, and conflicting political agendas in their various markets are not making things easy. Currency exchange alone is a real problem.
Military is outmodded, POLICE is the new military. And you can see that in Iraq. It's all about policing.
I think really this government will be the start of the opening of society, probably the formation of another new currency (in a few decades) and of course conflicts to putting down the few remaining pockets of government that haven't been bought by the corporations yet. After that there will be wars, but they'll be strictly population control, and no more of a match than professional wrestling.
Brings new meaning to the phrase "We have nothing to fear but fear itself", doesn't it?
"If anyone else knows, you must disclose."
Great, now I'm gonna have nightmares about pedant bear.
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I prefer the term astrospamming, turfing would imply a surface coating whereas spam is just lots of repeated messages, which is correct in this sense. The astro maybe doesn't make sense, but it serves to link the old, obsolete term from FOUR YEARS AGO with a new buzzword.
Anyone skilled in communications would know that this sort of campaign is useless. Your brain has filters which accept, and yes, remember a certain level of repetition. Soon after it stops at a certain threshold, like a cliche, for instance. I hope the O team is smart enough to stay out of this one. Major spam will just make M look like the extremely old man he is.
If you CHOOSE to work hard in America, and in a spirit of harmony, often that means working overtime, because there are so many other people willing to work overtime to get ahead. I guarantee that while the peer pressure might be the problem, the company will never ask an employee to work overtime; you will do it by choice. They can't fire you for not working overtime. And, if the contract states that there will be overtime, it's illegal.
However, the person who moves ahead is often a person who works more than what they are paid for. That's because in America we have the FREEDOM to work as much as we want. If this guy wanted to start his own computer company called "Crapple", with a little siluette of a poop on the front, he could. He's just a whiner. Guess what, when you are on the bottom rung of the ladder, or in charge of something big and important, it often takes more than 40 hours of work per week to get your work done. But he is getting an education and building his experience. I'm sure the experience he gained working for a design shop such as apple is PRICELESS. Slavery, pft, we should be so lucky. So now he's gone and thrown it all away because no company in California is every going to hire him. For what, a few grand of "lost wages"? Pft.
So guess we won't have to imagine a beowulf cluster of this. Phew, meme crisis averted.
I guess we'll see how this looks soon.
When he said "harden files", I thought he was going into a long soliloquy on all the porn on his computer, so I went to the next story.
I haven't had any problems using any software that's somewhat mature. If you know how to use Unix, you can use almost any software out there. I mean, you only really need to know tar, ./configure, make, make install, that's about it. Oh, and chgrp and chmod for permissions. And /etc is your config files. The rest just comes with experience. Everything is extremely usable; there is no wasted actions when using most unix programs I've seen. The problem is people see "usability" as being "shiny" which is not the same thing. Almost all of the comments I've seen so far have been about "shiny". If it's Usable, it DOES THE JOB. That's it.
If you want shiny, you move to MacOS X or Windows and you're going to pay for all of that design.
Exactly, and no reasonable court would allow a warrant unless they had definite probable cause to search. The government can't just search records for people they "think" might be breaking laws. That's very specific. Now, if they found a library book dropped at the scene of a murder, I would say they have probable cause to see who checked out book, because you might find the murderer. But getting information on a crime that hasn't happened "yet" is illegal. I could go and read books on making bombs just out of interest in high energy chemical reactions and not be a terrorist. But they could spend thousands of taxpayer dollars investigating every aspect of my life just to make sure I'm not a terrorist. That's the slippery slope. It's about MONEY more than FREEDOM.
This massive expansion of "homeland security" is wasteful of tax dollars because they are investigating thousands of people who haven't done anything. Not to mention building dossiers which I'm sure could be used for political means. But it's wasteful when they could be out solving other crimes that have happened. It's amazing that there's so little crime nowadays that they spend this much time trying to prevent things from happening. And the massive amount of money they are spending is not making people feel safer (the real goal). So lets reverse this and take a step back:
All of these policies were put in place during a frantic time when no one knew what was going to happen. Decisions made in a panic are often not the right ones. We need to review ALL of the policies made during the years of 2001-2005 (even if it takes years to review) and decide what we need to keep. There needs to be a massive PUBLIC effort to review the policies and decisions that were made, now that we "have time". And we need to cut costs where we can, because this stuff is extremely expensive and they can't just have a blank check out of fear anymore. If you added up the cost of 9/11, just in terms of government expansion, it's probably well over a trillion. And for what? You can't save people--we're all going to die anyway. The real idea is to maintain American (and global) confidence in the American economy, which is ALL THAT MATTERS if we are here for our purpose--to support future generations. But I question whether these current wasteful policies have really increased confidence all that much! If anything, they have hurt our confidence even more, because they have been wasting so much money on no-bid contracts and just JUNK like these pointless "preemptive" investigations.
If there's evidence of a crime, a court will issue a warrant. If there isn't, they cannot seize the data, because there's no warrant. That's why there are warrants and that's the law and that's IT. There are good reasons for these laws and this will get struck down when the ACLU goes after those agents and their boss.
Again, we need to review ALL the policy decisions made during this time period again with clear heads. Otherwise, we may do our children great injustice.
What were we JUST talking about?
Dude, they already CAN. In most cases all of the internet traffic flows through phone lines called "the backbone". The phone company owns them. The phone company has just recently recieved immunity in law for letting them (the government) listen illegally. Unless your traffic is going to a server in the same room, it is most likely passing through one of the major peer exchanges (read that article, please) which are these rooms, usually at a phone company building. They are almost always phone company buildings because they used to need huge buildings for their switches but now an exchange is only about 10 feet, and most of that is the connectors. So they have tons of room. Plus they used to need tons of batteries and backups. Now they use "SONET" rings and frame relay and stuff which rely on local (on-site) power backup. Your home line is probably still standard, but business lines account for the vast majority of active phone lines nowadays.. So the phone company leases "rack space" to these "ISPs" who basically also lease Copper or Fiber from the phone company to move their data on. Unless they've pulled their own copper or fiber or use some other expensive WAN technology like microwave (which is easily listened to, also), they go thru the phone company.
So, they turn on a span port on the peer point router (usually a Cisco 12000 type router), and just copy traffic off, probably using some sophisticated filtering technology. It's a lot of data, but they only check when they want to. Yep, in almost any large phone company datacenter in most metro areas there's this little "room"...... anyway, EVERYONE knows about the room, and it doesn't matter. The government is more than just a few guys. Sure, they are fucking corrupt, but really this country is run by us. If we don't get out and vote, and choose the right leaders, NOT just by listening to Cable News but by actually READING the testimony in Congress or the Senate, looking at the voting records of your representatives, GETTING involved. You can actually MEET your senator if you're in a small state, and you can almost definitely meet your congressperson. I think they should probably expand congress again, but that's neither here nor there.
So, you can keep the fear and paranoia stuff, but that's SO 2005. We are looking for solutions now. Maybe a better faster networking technology would help us communicate even more effectively, and find those solutions more quickly.