From wikipedia: "Tier 1 networks typically seek to protect their relatively rare status by preventing new networks from becoming Tier 1s and thus potentially competing. The networks often accomplish this by setting "peering requirements" which are intended to be too high for new networks to meet. Some experts in the field of Internet interconnections have compared the collective behaviors and motivations of Tier 1 networks to those of a cartel, in that they attempt to reduce competition in Internet bandwidth pricing through tacit collusion, and attempt to restrict the admission of new members. When one Tier 1 is perceived to be "cheating" the cartel by selling transit for too low a price, or by "dumping" too much outbound heavy bandwidth (which is significantly easier to deliver for the sending network than the receiving network), other members may move to de-peer that network."
Sprint and the others hope that the disruptive Cogent would disappear and seem to try to put them down every (legal) chance they get. Cogent tries to make some noise and even the playing field with by going against the telecoms.
I bet most of the people here dissing Cogent are either working for the other Tier 1 players, or are just playing into their hands.
Cogent is the one fighting for us. Fighting for lower connect costs.
It's my understanding that the reason that the connections are unbalanced (ie. more traffic flow coming from cogent) is that a major slice of internet porn is hosted on Cogent (due to the low rates).
The major telecoms, that host both business and residential customers, have a more balanced traffic pattern. This tight grip they have on two sides of the equation allow them to charge higher rates.
As Sprint and others slowly find out, cogent hosts a significant portion of the internet, and they must connect to cogent as part of their connection to "the Internet".
It might be better if cogent bought or was acquired by a residential ISP to balance things out more.
Ok, but it's not directly linked from the start page contents.
Click "Server Service Vulnerability - CVE-2008-4250"
Click "Workarounds for Server Service Vulnerability - CVE-2008-4250"
There you go, but it really should be the first note for those that want an immediate fix.
Well, if you're rolling your own load balancer and elastic scaling infrastructure, why don't you do it with faster, cheaper and more reliable servers. Why would you pick ec2?
All the features they have with starting, stopping and adding servers can be done in a dedicated server environment which has a much better price / performance.
It's really not an exaggeration. If there is a man in the middle, all insecure pages can not be trusted. With AJAX, your login information could be submitted to a hackers server before you even hit the submit button. The lock images that the banks put on the forms just makes things worse.
An even bigger problem is user training, in which they have failed miserably to train you.
I will admit that even if the bank does not put the login form on insecure pages, having an insecure website with a dumb users is just as bad. Image this problem with a dumb users: The hacker could modify the bank homepage to ADD a login form to the page. The user will just think it's an added feature. Or, they could add a note on the homepage to call them immediately at a special phone number to verify your login information.
"Auto scaling and healing of the application cluster was also a benefit"
I think you're thinking of the likes of 'scalr', which is a separate service / program ($50/month from scalr.net) . Amazon would have done well to build this in from the start.
I'm not familiar with all of them, but with amazon's service, it doesn't "spin up more servers to handle demand" by any stretch of the imagination (unlike what the name infers). You'd have to build an application that does this. Sure, it makes ordering and setting up new servers easy, but it still has to be done by your program. With google's system, there is no need to even worry about scaling up, because it just looks like one system.
Unfortunately, google's system is way to limited for anything but customized, simple db apps. I can't wait for it to expand it's feature set.
The more I read about this story, the more it reminds me of "The Fountainhead". This lone, brilliant man fighting the mediocrity of committees and less achieved managers. The government is NO place for a person like this. He'd be much better off running his own company with no bosses.
Reminds me of "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand. Maybe he thought they didn't deserve to use the super secure system that he had set up. Maybe he didn't like the usage of the system. The collective is no power against a genius.
Huh? My iphone box says nothing about a contract.
When I ordered it, it said I needed a contract for phone service with AT&T, but the hardware itself was no strings attached. Sure, there was the minor bit of software locking to prevent other cellphone providers, but that fell quickly.
The iphone was always available WITHOUT the 2 year contract from apple. I certainly never paid a 2 year contract when I bought my phone 9 months ago. Some people were able to activate w/ att without a contract is their credit was bad. Now, with the new plan, they're going to allow a subsidized version with a contract.
You can make a statement without actually participating in voter fraud. There's free speech and the whole internet to run around saying out bad things are.
When things like this pop up and the authorities find out, they HAVE to prosecute. If something like this became systematic, we'd have a real problem on our hands.
I've certainly heard a few people saying the are the 'Slowskys' when it comes to the internet. They like it slow. I'll tell you, that Comcast comercial did more to keep people in the slow lane.
Reminds me of internet for country folk:
http://txc.net.au/~mapie/HillTech.jpg
From the time we impeached the last president. The average idiots around me always try to tell me that Clinton wasn't impeached. Clinton was impeached and it didn't get us anything.
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Is there a comparable intel chip for servers coming out? It's been over a year and still nothing can beat the price/performance of the xeon 3220..
Sprint and the others hope that the disruptive Cogent would disappear and seem to try to put them down every (legal) chance they get. Cogent tries to make some noise and even the playing field with by going against the telecoms.
I bet most of the people here dissing Cogent are either working for the other Tier 1 players, or are just playing into their hands.
It's my understanding that the reason that the connections are unbalanced (ie. more traffic flow coming from cogent) is that a major slice of internet porn is hosted on Cogent (due to the low rates). The major telecoms, that host both business and residential customers, have a more balanced traffic pattern. This tight grip they have on two sides of the equation allow them to charge higher rates.
As Sprint and others slowly find out, cogent hosts a significant portion of the internet, and they must connect to cogent as part of their connection to "the Internet".
It might be better if cogent bought or was acquired by a residential ISP to balance things out more.
http://internetpulse.net/ .. Are they connected again? The traffic is flowing.
I use a prepaid account with a $250 iphone from apple. Too bad they don't offer that option anymore. It's great for people that don't talk much.
Ok, but it's not directly linked from the start page contents. Click "Server Service Vulnerability - CVE-2008-4250" Click "Workarounds for Server Service Vulnerability - CVE-2008-4250" There you go, but it really should be the first note for those that want an immediate fix.
Is to just turn off file and print sharing? Why don't they share that bit of info with us? Who would enable file sharing on windows anyway?
They didn't like the effects of ultrasound.. http://www.ajevonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/14/1/23
Not just use related. One of the biggest banks in the world, with branches in 60 countries would be on the list: http://www.hsbc.co.uk/1/2/personal/contact
All the features they have with starting, stopping and adding servers can be done in a dedicated server environment which has a much better price / performance.
An even bigger problem is user training, in which they have failed miserably to train you.
I will admit that even if the bank does not put the login form on insecure pages, having an insecure website with a dumb users is just as bad. Image this problem with a dumb users: The hacker could modify the bank homepage to ADD a login form to the page. The user will just think it's an added feature. Or, they could add a note on the homepage to call them immediately at a special phone number to verify your login information.
"Auto scaling and healing of the application cluster was also a benefit" I think you're thinking of the likes of 'scalr', which is a separate service / program ($50/month from scalr.net) . Amazon would have done well to build this in from the start.
I'm not familiar with all of them, but with amazon's service, it doesn't "spin up more servers to handle demand" by any stretch of the imagination (unlike what the name infers). You'd have to build an application that does this. Sure, it makes ordering and setting up new servers easy, but it still has to be done by your program. With google's system, there is no need to even worry about scaling up, because it just looks like one system. Unfortunately, google's system is way to limited for anything but customized, simple db apps. I can't wait for it to expand it's feature set.
The more I read about this story, the more it reminds me of "The Fountainhead". This lone, brilliant man fighting the mediocrity of committees and less achieved managers. The government is NO place for a person like this. He'd be much better off running his own company with no bosses.
Reminds me of "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand. Maybe he thought they didn't deserve to use the super secure system that he had set up. Maybe he didn't like the usage of the system. The collective is no power against a genius.
Huh? My iphone box says nothing about a contract. When I ordered it, it said I needed a contract for phone service with AT&T, but the hardware itself was no strings attached. Sure, there was the minor bit of software locking to prevent other cellphone providers, but that fell quickly.
The iphone was always available WITHOUT the 2 year contract from apple. I certainly never paid a 2 year contract when I bought my phone 9 months ago. Some people were able to activate w/ att without a contract is their credit was bad. Now, with the new plan, they're going to allow a subsidized version with a contract.
When things like this pop up and the authorities find out, they HAVE to prosecute. If something like this became systematic, we'd have a real problem on our hands.
I've certainly heard a few people saying the are the 'Slowskys' when it comes to the internet. They like it slow. I'll tell you, that Comcast comercial did more to keep people in the slow lane. Reminds me of internet for country folk: http://txc.net.au/~mapie/HillTech.jpg
now that there is a video of it. Do you think they just put the word secret in the title to get more clicks?
Letting Clinton go for the perjury set a fine example for Bush. What's a president gotta do to get convicted?
correct, of course. It's amazing how many people in the thread don't even know what impeachment means.
Correction. "Impeached a president because a lying about a BJ". Yes, Bill was impeached. Look it up.
Hmm. Clinton was impeached though. Where have you been? He was only the 2nd impeached president of the US.
From the time we impeached the last president. The average idiots around me always try to tell me that Clinton wasn't impeached. Clinton was impeached and it didn't get us anything.