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  1. Re:is it worth it? on Google Fiber's Austin, Texas Rollout Confirmed · · Score: 1

    This is the same BS every providers gives and has nothing to do with telecommuting. I have not heard any telco try to play the that's business game since ISDN died over a decade ago. Cheap rate for an un-metered gige is about 1k a month from like likes of Cogent, L3, or HE if you were in a lit building.

    That all said the we need to separate the access from the last mile. City's and towns are fairly good at infrastructure an all passive optics C/Dwdm could do wonders to freeing up traditional sticking points. Allowing all comers to cross connect lets Google or whoever innovate on the access side.

  2. Re:is it worth it? on Google Fiber's Austin, Texas Rollout Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Telecommuting, it can save more gas than any hybrid pretty much if you work in an office you can telecommute. Huge quality of life benefits from this when combined with flexible hours etc. The huge this is google is the only major thing since modems and ISDN that's symmetric it's a gig down and a gig up.

  3. Re:The problem with nuclear power is on Leak Found In Fukushima Tank Holding Radioactive Water · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The issue is that were treating stuff as ubber scary that's far less dangerous that what goes up coal plants smoke stacks. Things less radioactive than coal get treated as major problems that we have to contain forever we might as well just throw the stuff into the furnace.

    Spent fuel rods are the major highly radioactive bit and those should be reprocessed to make more fuel rods. We don't because that reprocessing is also a good way to get weapon grade bits. Pretty much anything that's radioactive enough to need to be contained over huge periods is radioactive enough to run a reactor. Other bits are non issues.

  4. Re:Secure your machines, nothing else on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Unwanted But Official Security Probes? · · Score: 1

    HIPPA is pretty broadly written it does not require a lot. But if they put scanning into the written policy then it's required by HIPPA as HIPPA required they comply with there own written policy.

    Much like PCI you higher an auditing company the larger the better they act as the get out of jail free card if anything happens.

  5. Key words connect to hospital network on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Unwanted But Official Security Probes? · · Score: 1

    If your clients are connecting to the hospital network they most probably agreed to this as part of those terms of service. Blocking the attacking IP's most probably violates those terms as well.

    Even if it's not baked into the TOS HIPPA pretty much requires this sort of thing 164.312 covers a lot of it. The specific policy is up to the hospital pretty much letting hospital policy override other local laws if they conflict.

    Have fun calling the cops it will probably get them laughed at and there contracts terminated as they do not understand and thus are not following hippa requirements. Your best next step is to get a hippa auditor to go over there setup, as the only way they do not fall under hippa is if they are on the other side of the firewall and never access any patient data pretty doubtful if they do more than play minesweeper on them.

  6. Re:Jitsi, Retroshare on Want to Keep Messages From the Feds? Use iMessage · · Score: 2

    They even say they can the article looks more like them whining that they might have to get a second warrant etc for apple and that it's not real time.

  7. Re:semi serious question on New Seagate Hybrid Drives Hampered By Slow Mechanical Guts · · Score: 1

    Because there is no good use case for them.

    256GB SSD's are less than a buck a GB and outperform a small raid set in everything but size. Put these in desktops laptops pretty much anything with a person sitting in front of it.

    3TB drives are about 120 bucks, USB3 externals are nearly as fast as an internal sata one (piles of overhead as USB sucks like always) these are your bulk storage drives. Bulk servers get these combine with a SSD caching and raid to get a small raid 10 outperforming a big raid of 15's in all but extreme cases. Unless you running 10ge you can not shift the data to the device fast enough.

    10k's really do not fit anywhere. 15k were to hot for desktops and to power hungry for laptops they only really fit in high end SAN/NAS boxes with huge SSD in front of them.

  8. Re:More person, more cost. Fine. on Samoa Air Rolling Out "Pay As You Weigh" Fares · · Score: 1

    Having worked with the DOT it's mostly nimby issues. People that bough homes adjacent to train tracks seem to work hard to get them removed. Couple that with train stations in every tiny town the 60mph commuter rail effectively goes 30.

    Other fun issues is everything between Boston and NYC has to go though providence as 2 senators live there.

  9. patch much on NetWare 3.12 Server Taken Down After 16 Years of Continuous Duty · · Score: 0

    So pretty much they left a box running for 16 years without any updates that required a reboot. Oddly I expect there were a few missed security patches. Can not say for sure I was already running linux on the desktop and servers at that time.

  10. Re:Bunker on Largest DDoS In History Reaches 300 Billion Bits Per Second · · Score: 2

    It's really simple, hey judge can you issue an order to cut of there internet access. Sure. Hand order to there peers. No fiber need be harmed when you can just shut down the port at the far end.

    That ass said I doubt that the traffic originates from cyberbunker they do not have 30 10ge connections.

  11. Re:Good Riddens on PayPal To Replace VMware With OpenStack · · Score: 2

    And KVM just works and has for a very long time.

  12. Re:This book should be up-to-date for a few years on Book Review: A Practical Guide To Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming · · Score: 1

    It's unix CLI that really does not change much. One of windows biggest issues if they have to change everything each generation as a sales tool.

  13. Re:Uh, I get this with lacp on A 50 Gbps Connection With Multipath TCP · · Score: 1

    LACP does not need to care about L3 or L4 it's free to do so. Really cheap networking kit (and some broken really expensive bits) only use mac's ever smarter kit can do whatever it wants higher up in the protocol stack. How it distributes packets is not something that's negotiated it's just fixed or a setting on each end. If you plug the dumbest of the dumb lacp switch into the smartest switch you will get good load balance in one direction and poor the other.

  14. Re:Uh, I get this with lacp on A 50 Gbps Connection With Multipath TCP · · Score: 1

    It's worse than that depending on how things are hashing you can have 4 connections and 2 of them use the same link (or all four) It's really dependent on the networking kit your using LACP does not specify how you do this just that you do something to insure packets for a given "conversation" only go down one path at a time. Simpler networking kit might only look at 1 mac address smarter bits go all they way up to protocol ports.

    For iSCSI the "easy" fix is to run multipath it assuming your san supports it. That makes LACP work much better as it has more mac's IP and ports to hash against.

  15. Re:backup orthogonal to encryption on Ask Slashdot: Simplifying Encryption and Backup? · · Score: 1

    You want a backup that generally should never be a raw image. Most backup software can deal with encryption rather than trying to backup the encrypted raw data.

  16. Re:Uh, I get this with lacp on A 50 Gbps Connection With Multipath TCP · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not unless they changed something recently. Read http://www.ieee802.org/3/hssg/public/apr07/frazier_01_0407.pdf LACP requires that any conversation goes over only a single link at a time. Out of order packets can do some rather nasty things to tcp connections and adding buffers to correct that does nasty things to voip / other latency sensitive bits. Sure linux boxes have some non standard modes that might work if you sitting one switch away but that's not conforming to the LACP spec. They also do not scale as they require keeping state of every session running through them. What networking gear are you using?

  17. Re:totally secure == powered off on A Truckload of OAuth Issues That Would Make Any Author Quit · · Score: 1

    If you have hacked the browser or machine you have an issue. For the browser there are a slew of API's dependent on OS that let there be separation so that a browser exploit is limited to allowing authentication while that browser remains open but never exposes the base digital certificates. Smart cards take that further by never exposing the private key to anybody.

    As to AUPI vs API oauth was never meant to be a end all and be all of authentication. Designing something to let arbitrary systems share data with fine grained arbitrary controls is a huge project that has not really been done well by anybody yet.

  18. Re:Wow on Supreme Court Upholds First Sale Doctrine · · Score: 1

    First sale doctrine is not specific as you would like to think. It allows the resale, rental, etc etc etc right that you would have with any other physical good to apply to copyright and trademarked goods.

    It's perfectly reasonable for somebody to buy Colgate toothpaste overseas import it into america and sell it as Colgate toothpaste. If they choose to sell there product at a cheaper price oversea's and somebody takes the opportunity and risk to turn a profit more power to them. This is part of the definition of open markets.

    Drug companies are great at doing this having pushed to get laws to specifically protect them.

    For awhile hardware companies were trying to say the firmware was not transferable and you had to buy it again (often for close to the cost of the hardware new), the EU nipped that pretty quickly.

    First sale pretty much just limits copyright/trademark holders from trying to retain control over there products after they sell them.

  19. Re:someting so huge on Raspberry Pi As Hardware Backdoor · · Score: 1

    Are you stuck somewhere in the late 90's? At this point it's not possible to buy a 100bt switch to use in a corp environment. Your bottom end is all ge, 10ge uplinks in the middle and 10ge switches for larger servers. Sure some corp buildings are odd I can think of a couple fortune 500's that are using token ring (replacing it requires lots of demo work).

    You really need a device with USB target support so you can grab all keyboard input. There are plenty of soc's that fit the bill much better than a R Pi. 802.1AE is getting more widespread so a usb target (or pcie) faking a nic that has 802.1AE offload might get you a lot farther. Would also want to see a wifi nic and high powered Bluetooth.

  20. Re:someting so huge on Raspberry Pi As Hardware Backdoor · · Score: 2

    You think the Pi is going to keep up real time on gige? Not much is running 100bt anymore. Yea the little ones are not that powerful but neither is the Pi.

  21. someting so huge on Raspberry Pi As Hardware Backdoor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why use a R pi when you can get linux boxes the size of Ethernet jacks? Because the R Pi is "cool"?

  22. Re:Agree on Is It Time To Enforce a Gamers' Bill of Rights? · · Score: 1

    There are some parts, the sony rootkit sort of thing you need protection from since it's not like you could make an informed decision.

  23. Re:Or the easy solution... on Ohio Judge Rules Speed Cameras Are a Scam · · Score: 1

    Worse yet some of the contracts require short yellows. Redlight and speed cams do not make us safer they are a revenue grab plain and simple. They have been show to increase the number of accidents.

  24. Re:Should be Obvious on Texas Bills Would Bar Warrantless Snooping On Phone Location · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Law enforcement needs to be held to a higher standard, higher than commercial or private ones. Simple case my son might want to build a quadcopter with a camera on it for a science project. This to me seems something reasonable for people to play with. Allowing police to do the same to gather evidence does not.

  25. Re:Worth more than any car? on Cisco Looking To Make Things Right With West Virginia · · Score: 1

    Sure do, and more often I've seen people write them to get a specific piece of Cisco kit as that's the most valuable thing they believe for there resume. Find somebody with a routing box that will handle PSTN. PRI, DSL, Cable, VoIP with encryption, wan acceleration, has a managed switch with with POE, and redundant power supplies. Nobody else makes that box. Piles of ways to make it with a few boxes but not just one.

    Suggesting something that makes sense into the RFP process gets you looked at like your a thief or con artist. It's fair to say they are all rigged one way or another.