The biggest problem is you really needed to have Power Company buy-in. The real way to get it moving was to have the Power Company send the info to Google (after the customer opted in). There are many problems with this. First this requires the Power Company to have Smart Meters, second to have a way to export this data to Google, and third, there are all sorts of laws and legal concerns the Power Company has to deal with regarding this. What do they gain? Little, and as we see with Google here, even if they jumped through all these hoops, it could all be shut down.
Now consumers could buy their own gadget and make all of their house run through it and send it to Google, but that is expensive and not convenient.
The real solution here is for the Power Company to publish the info for the customer to consume.
I'm not a Pacific Gas & Electric (a California utility company) electricity customer, but I know I can see my daily gas usage on their website. I suspect those that use them for electricity can do the same.
I know my employer, Modesto Irrigation District, a local water and electricity company, is working toward making this information available for rate payers with their electronic bill. This is the best long-term solution for customers as it is sustainable.
How about Interstate 680 South which turns into Interstate 280 North near HWY 101 as you travel southwest? Or going the opposite direction on Interstate 280 South which turns into Interstate 680 North near HWY 101 traveling east (northeast just at that point)?
Still, these numbers are not unattainable with a household with many viewers with different tastes (for our family, we watch the same shows and talk throughout, even pausing at times to discuss stuff). 370hr / 31 days ~=12 hr/day. That's extreme for a single person (well, I'd hope), but say a household of parents and 2 teens, who all watch something different, that's down to 3 hr/day.
Not sure how that factors in with gaming numbers. Also not exactly sure how that factors with more HD content. The last LAS was just under 54 minutes and 650GBytes in size, so seems about on par with the numbers I show above (their show is pretty static, not really much movement).
I re-signed up with Comcast for 1.5mb/s at $19.95 for 6 mos. It's fast enough, and anytime I need to download a big DVD ISO (Fedora, CentOS, etc.), I just make a copy of the download I've already made at work bring it via USB.
My point is that in the 10 days I've had service, I've already used 46GB. I run my own router and it maintains per-day download information and it appears my peak days are 7GB/day, but more typical days are 4 or 5GB/day.
What do we do that generates this much bandwidth? Just watching NetFlix streaming and downloading videocasts (Linux Action Show, etc.). Kids, wife and I watch a few hours of shows/movie, kids go to bed, and then my wife and I watch shows/movie together for a few more hours many nights. We're actually watching more "TV" than I'd prefer, but I think that's due to not having "TV" for over a year, so I'd expect things to taper down, especially when school starts back up.
However, I can easily see how elderly people or those stuck at home could easily exceed the 250GB/mo. cap that Comcast has. The 150GB/mo. that AT&T has is just setting the bar lower for the race to the bottom.
Mind you I only have a 1.5mb/s connection, and I know Comcast is hard capping it (bandwidth flow reports in my router prove this). I think folks paying for faster speeds are just getting ripped off, other than that fast burst. At the end of the month, they can't download any more than I can - they just reach their cap faster.
That's assuming max bandwidth during usage - but that's what NetFlix does. It finds out the best rate without having to stop and re-buffer, and streams at that rate (mind you, not the max rate, but the max sustainable rate that they have a encoding for).
So, in my opinion Comcast, AT&T, etc. should have to advertise these numbers: With Comcast you can only watch 46 hours of NetFlix per month (~1.5hr/day), and with AT&T DSL you can only watch 28 hours of NetFlix per month (just under an hour a day, so one episode of a show). Mind you that is if you do nothing else (like download videocasts at 150-250mb/show/day).
That's correct. The executives with their neck on the line won't go for it because if it is a misstep NERC/FERC will be all over them with fines and audit spot checks forever.
The best solution is to not connect SCADA systems with IP to any external network, firewall or not. Serial-based RTUs are totally acceptable to pass data and isolate networks from IP and most of the problems there.
The next level of protection needed in SCADA is protocol specific command-by-comamnd firewalling (ICCP, DNP3, etc.) of key hosts. There are a few vendors, but this is a very green, very niche market. However, this would allow for protection of PLCs and "less-smart" devices that are more easily abused (think Stuxnet), even within the secured SCADA networks.
There is no need for a live person to place the call. An IVR system can place the call and relay the details and await the response. No SMS, no high-tech phone required at all.
ING.nl has it, but ING.com does not (two-channel authentication). It's a choice on their side because no one in the US is asking for it. Adding an audio option is not hard, and compared to sorting out SMS carrier issues in the US, it may be easier.
How is storing your passwords locally on your own PC any less secure than manually typing the passwords in each time? I will say that the password store should be protected with a Master Password (like what Firefox does).
I'd love to have such a financial institued. I'm writing my credit union to ask for this now. I'll go ahead and write BankAmerica as well (former bank of mine, which I still use for online one-time "Shop Safe" credit card purchases).
One method I could see which would get around a hacked phone would be to initiate an audio call to the person and describe the transaction and give the one-time key.
This would take some advanced hacking (beyond just grabbing text on the phone).
Sure would be nice. But that would require them to actually care to listen to what you actually want. They want you to use their tools and services, not mint.com, etc.
I really wish mint.com would just make an app that you'd store locally and store your usernames/passwords in, fetch your current statement and transactions, and then upload it to mint.com.
You can manually do this yourself and feed the info into mint.com, but that's such a hassle. I just use GNUcash and have it download my info and don't get to use mint.com's fancy tracking (I track my categories anyway - which is fairly easy as it'll remember each payee's last category.).
They, as in the person you were just speaking to. Can you not recognize a voice you spoke to less than 30 seconds prior? It's not like some random caller calls you back, it's the person you just spoke with.
Yup, I was going to point out IBM and the holocaust. This really is just history repeating itself, and greed for the almighty dollar more important than human life and freedom.
"China that it sells in other nations in compliance with U.S. government regulations." I bet IBM did as well.
Private AS is fine for non-Internet connected services (MPLS, B2B private connections, etc.), but what ISP will let you peer with them? Every ISP I've ever deal with requires a global AS.
Hydro is only not green because of the wind and solar lobbyists. You don't see the former San Francisco major, and long-time Senator Feinstein calling for the dismantling of Hetch Hetchy - no, in fact she is still in strong favor of it - it's all a political game.
What California should have done was say all existing hydro is grandfathered in and counts a "green", but any new hydro would not be considered for the 33% mix.
However, look at what not daming and controlling large water ways does when there are huge downpours, or when there are doughts. Might as well take the little bit of bad with all the benefits it brings (controlled water sources, "clean" energy).
Plenty of people still want to restore Hetch Hetchy, but they have no economical way to supply San Francisco with clean water, nor have a viable solution to supply it and many parts of the east bay with equally cheap power.
What good is it to multi-home if you are not announcing your address space to your ISPs? If they announce it, what occurs when your link to them goes down? Sounds like you're going to be in a split-brain situation with all your traffic that goes their way not making it to you until you get their BGP engineers on the phone and have them remove the prefix.
Sounds like you're talking off the top of your head with no practical experience.
Our Wii rarely plays games these days thanks to NetFlix streaming. We're cable-less and have been for two years now (prior I was a MythTV user). We average about 60gb//mo.
Hah, speaking of finding a way to bill for multicast traffic. I recall needing multicast across a VZN MPLS service to many sites. VZN wanted to charge something like $250 per site per month more in services to enable this. Hah, we said no thank you and just tunneled it over GRE. The effect was that we used the amount of bandwidth times the sites participating, which in reality just wasted VZNs bandwidth. Once it made it to the remote site and came out of the GRE tunnel it functioned just the same. VoIP MoH and paging worked just fine, as did conference calls.
No, no tax on most (unprepared, raw?) items. Snack items and other items (I don't recall all the rules) are taxed.
Today I bought a Subway sandwich. I did not have it toasted. If it was toasted it would have been taxed (no extra money in Subway's pocket, just the states). Any hot sub is taxed as well.
You'll want to use two prefixes, actually. One prefix will be your global prefix that your ISP assigns and you can expect to change if your ISP renumbers, is bought, you move, you change ISPs, etc. The second prefix, which you mention, is the ULA address space, and you can use right now even if your ISP has no IPv6 support. The nice thing is that you can run both address space at the same time. Further, when your ISP does change your prefix, you only tell your routers, and all the devices learn it. Program your internal DNS to use your ULA address space and forget about using the global address space (unless you want external access, in which can put that in your external DNS).
Plan on your global prefix changing. Don't do foolish things like statically assigning those addresses anywhere other than your routers, which you'll have to touch if you change anyway. Use ULA addresses for static.
I've changed prefixes 3 different times (SIXXS -> HE -> PI) and it took me minutes. I have all my router configs stored and only had to do two edits - one to add the new prefix - wait so all devices learned it - update DNS - remove the old prefix from routers. They only delay at all was letting the RAs and DNS caches age out.
It's not hard, really. I manage a 200k+ node enterprise network with 99.5% of the devices with only IPv6 addresses.
Yeah, but each IPv6/48 (assuming/64 per VLAN) is approximately the same as an IPv4/16 (assuming/24 per VLAN). Each has 8 bits of address space available to network with.
Further, you get a/48 for each site. For each site you have, you get a/48. That's a huge amount of address space. Further, ARIN (not sure on other RIRs) is very liberal with IPv6 address space. We asked for a/45 and they suggested we resubmit as a/44.
Only if your RIR's policy allows. For ARIN you have to have justification (just wanting to multihome may not be enough) and it is US$1,250 up front for an IPv6 netblock, plus US$500 for an ASN, and then US$100/year. With all of that, you can then have PI (provider independent) space. Otherwise, you get a global prefix from your provider. If you change providers, you change global prefixes.
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The biggest problem is you really needed to have Power Company buy-in. The real way to get it moving was to have the Power Company send the info to Google (after the customer opted in). There are many problems with this. First this requires the Power Company to have Smart Meters, second to have a way to export this data to Google, and third, there are all sorts of laws and legal concerns the Power Company has to deal with regarding this. What do they gain? Little, and as we see with Google here, even if they jumped through all these hoops, it could all be shut down.
Now consumers could buy their own gadget and make all of their house run through it and send it to Google, but that is expensive and not convenient.
The real solution here is for the Power Company to publish the info for the customer to consume.
I'm not a Pacific Gas & Electric (a California utility company) electricity customer, but I know I can see my daily gas usage on their website. I suspect those that use them for electricity can do the same.
I know my employer, Modesto Irrigation District, a local water and electricity company, is working toward making this information available for rate payers with their electronic bill. This is the best long-term solution for customers as it is sustainable.
How about Interstate 680 South which turns into Interstate 280 North near HWY 101 as you travel southwest? Or going the opposite direction on Interstate 280 South which turns into Interstate 680 North near HWY 101 traveling east (northeast just at that point)?
Yup, you can't make this stuff up:
I680 at I280, Santa Clara, CA
Zoom out and take a look.
Arr, the math is off by a factor of 8 (Byte vs. Bits).
1 Byte = 8 bits
250GBytes = 2,000GBits
150GBytes = 1,200GBits
250GBytes / 1.5Mbits/s = 1,333,333sec = 22,222min = 370.37hr
150GBytes / 1.5Mbits/s = 800,000sec = 13,333min = 222.22hr
Still, these numbers are not unattainable with a household with many viewers with different tastes (for our family, we watch the same shows and talk throughout, even pausing at times to discuss stuff). 370hr / 31 days ~=12 hr/day. That's extreme for a single person (well, I'd hope), but say a household of parents and 2 teens, who all watch something different, that's down to 3 hr/day.
Not sure how that factors in with gaming numbers. Also not exactly sure how that factors with more HD content. The last LAS was just under 54 minutes and 650GBytes in size, so seems about on par with the numbers I show above (their show is pretty static, not really much movement).
I re-signed up with Comcast for 1.5mb/s at $19.95 for 6 mos. It's fast enough, and anytime I need to download a big DVD ISO (Fedora, CentOS, etc.), I just make a copy of the download I've already made at work bring it via USB.
My point is that in the 10 days I've had service, I've already used 46GB. I run my own router and it maintains per-day download information and it appears my peak days are 7GB/day, but more typical days are 4 or 5GB/day.
What do we do that generates this much bandwidth? Just watching NetFlix streaming and downloading videocasts (Linux Action Show, etc.). Kids, wife and I watch a few hours of shows/movie, kids go to bed, and then my wife and I watch shows/movie together for a few more hours many nights. We're actually watching more "TV" than I'd prefer, but I think that's due to not having "TV" for over a year, so I'd expect things to taper down, especially when school starts back up.
However, I can easily see how elderly people or those stuck at home could easily exceed the 250GB/mo. cap that Comcast has. The 150GB/mo. that AT&T has is just setting the bar lower for the race to the bottom.
Mind you I only have a 1.5mb/s connection, and I know Comcast is hard capping it (bandwidth flow reports in my router prove this). I think folks paying for faster speeds are just getting ripped off, other than that fast burst. At the end of the month, they can't download any more than I can - they just reach their cap faster.
Here's the maths:
250gb/s / 1.5mb/s = 166,666sec = 2,777min = 46.29hr
150gb/s / 1.5mb/s = 100,000sec = 1,666min = 27.77hr
That's assuming max bandwidth during usage - but that's what NetFlix does. It finds out the best rate without having to stop and re-buffer, and streams at that rate (mind you, not the max rate, but the max sustainable rate that they have a encoding for).
So, in my opinion Comcast, AT&T, etc. should have to advertise these numbers: With Comcast you can only watch 46 hours of NetFlix per month (~1.5hr/day), and with AT&T DSL you can only watch 28 hours of NetFlix per month (just under an hour a day, so one episode of a show). Mind you that is if you do nothing else (like download videocasts at 150-250mb/show/day).
That's correct. The executives with their neck on the line won't go for it because if it is a misstep NERC/FERC will be all over them with fines and audit spot checks forever.
The best solution is to not connect SCADA systems with IP to any external network, firewall or not. Serial-based RTUs are totally acceptable to pass data and isolate networks from IP and most of the problems there.
The next level of protection needed in SCADA is protocol specific command-by-comamnd firewalling (ICCP, DNP3, etc.) of key hosts. There are a few vendors, but this is a very green, very niche market. However, this would allow for protection of PLCs and "less-smart" devices that are more easily abused (think Stuxnet), even within the secured SCADA networks.
There is no need for a live person to place the call. An IVR system can place the call and relay the details and await the response. No SMS, no high-tech phone required at all.
ING.nl has it, but ING.com does not (two-channel authentication). It's a choice on their side because no one in the US is asking for it. Adding an audio option is not hard, and compared to sorting out SMS carrier issues in the US, it may be easier.
How is storing your passwords locally on your own PC any less secure than manually typing the passwords in each time? I will say that the password store should be protected with a Master Password (like what Firefox does).
I'd love to have such a financial institued. I'm writing my credit union to ask for this now. I'll go ahead and write BankAmerica as well (former bank of mine, which I still use for online one-time "Shop Safe" credit card purchases).
One method I could see which would get around a hacked phone would be to initiate an audio call to the person and describe the transaction and give the one-time key.
This would take some advanced hacking (beyond just grabbing text on the phone).
Sure would be nice. But that would require them to actually care to listen to what you actually want. They want you to use their tools and services, not mint.com, etc.
I really wish mint.com would just make an app that you'd store locally and store your usernames/passwords in, fetch your current statement and transactions, and then upload it to mint.com.
You can manually do this yourself and feed the info into mint.com, but that's such a hassle. I just use GNUcash and have it download my info and don't get to use mint.com's fancy tracking (I track my categories anyway - which is fairly easy as it'll remember each payee's last category.).
They, as in the person you were just speaking to. Can you not recognize a voice you spoke to less than 30 seconds prior? It's not like some random caller calls you back, it's the person you just spoke with.
Yup, I was going to point out IBM and the holocaust. This really is just history repeating itself, and greed for the almighty dollar more important than human life and freedom.
"China that it sells in other nations in compliance with U.S. government regulations." I bet IBM did as well.
Private AS is fine for non-Internet connected services (MPLS, B2B private connections, etc.), but what ISP will let you peer with them? Every ISP I've ever deal with requires a global AS.
Hydro is only not green because of the wind and solar lobbyists. You don't see the former San Francisco major, and long-time Senator Feinstein calling for the dismantling of Hetch Hetchy - no, in fact she is still in strong favor of it - it's all a political game.
What California should have done was say all existing hydro is grandfathered in and counts a "green", but any new hydro would not be considered for the 33% mix.
However, look at what not daming and controlling large water ways does when there are huge downpours, or when there are doughts. Might as well take the little bit of bad with all the benefits it brings (controlled water sources, "clean" energy).
Plenty of people still want to restore Hetch Hetchy, but they have no economical way to supply San Francisco with clean water, nor have a viable solution to supply it and many parts of the east bay with equally cheap power.
What good is it to multi-home if you are not announcing your address space to your ISPs? If they announce it, what occurs when your link to them goes down? Sounds like you're going to be in a split-brain situation with all your traffic that goes their way not making it to you until you get their BGP engineers on the phone and have them remove the prefix.
Sounds like you're talking off the top of your head with no practical experience.
You'll not get PI space if you're not going to multihome. To multihome you need an AS.
Untrue, doesn't matter where you have it at Subway, just how you have it prepared.
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Our Wii rarely plays games these days thanks to NetFlix streaming. We're cable-less and have been for two years now (prior I was a MythTV user). We average about 60gb//mo.
Hah, speaking of finding a way to bill for multicast traffic. I recall needing multicast across a VZN MPLS service to many sites. VZN wanted to charge something like $250 per site per month more in services to enable this. Hah, we said no thank you and just tunneled it over GRE. The effect was that we used the amount of bandwidth times the sites participating, which in reality just wasted VZNs bandwidth. Once it made it to the remote site and came out of the GRE tunnel it functioned just the same. VoIP MoH and paging worked just fine, as did conference calls.
No, no tax on most (unprepared, raw?) items. Snack items and other items (I don't recall all the rules) are taxed.
Today I bought a Subway sandwich. I did not have it toasted. If it was toasted it would have been taxed (no extra money in Subway's pocket, just the states). Any hot sub is taxed as well.
You'll want to use two prefixes, actually. One prefix will be your global prefix that your ISP assigns and you can expect to change if your ISP renumbers, is bought, you move, you change ISPs, etc. The second prefix, which you mention, is the ULA address space, and you can use right now even if your ISP has no IPv6 support. The nice thing is that you can run both address space at the same time. Further, when your ISP does change your prefix, you only tell your routers, and all the devices learn it. Program your internal DNS to use your ULA address space and forget about using the global address space (unless you want external access, in which can put that in your external DNS).
Plan on your global prefix changing. Don't do foolish things like statically assigning those addresses anywhere other than your routers, which you'll have to touch if you change anyway. Use ULA addresses for static.
I've changed prefixes 3 different times (SIXXS -> HE -> PI) and it took me minutes. I have all my router configs stored and only had to do two edits - one to add the new prefix - wait so all devices learned it - update DNS - remove the old prefix from routers. They only delay at all was letting the RAs and DNS caches age out.
It's not hard, really. I manage a 200k+ node enterprise network with 99.5% of the devices with only IPv6 addresses.
Unless you move to another location with a different ISP POP, or even change ISPs, and then you'll get a new global prefix from your ISP.
Yeah, but each IPv6 /48 (assuming /64 per VLAN) is approximately the same as an IPv4 /16 (assuming /24 per VLAN). Each has 8 bits of address space available to network with.
Further, you get a /48 for each site. For each site you have, you get a /48. That's a huge amount of address space. Further, ARIN (not sure on other RIRs) is very liberal with IPv6 address space. We asked for a /45 and they suggested we resubmit as a /44.
Only if your RIR's policy allows. For ARIN you have to have justification (just wanting to multihome may not be enough) and it is US$1,250 up front for an IPv6 netblock, plus US$500 for an ASN, and then US$100/year. With all of that, you can then have PI (provider independent) space. Otherwise, you get a global prefix from your provider. If you change providers, you change global prefixes.