AT&T: You can't handle the iPhone with Google Voice!
Son, we operate on network that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by carriers with restrictions. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Verizon Wireless? We have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Google Voice and you curse AT&T. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what we know: That pulling Google Voice, while tragic, probably saved the network. And our existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves the network.
You don't want the Google Voice on your iPhone. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about at TechCrunch50, you want us protecting the network. You need us protecting that network. We use words like rate limiting, application approval and restrictions...we use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline.
We have neither the time nor the inclination to explain ourselves to a blog who writes and profits under the blanket of the very network that we provide, then questions the manner in which we provide it. We'd prefer you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, we suggest you pick up a router and build your own network. Either way, We don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to.
TechCrunch: Did you order Google Voice taken down?
AT&T: We did the job you sent us to do.
TechCrunch: Did you order Google Voice taken down?
Sigh... okay, I'll spell it out for you. I'm saying that the term "more secure" needs to die; I wasn't arguing that one OS was "more secure" than another.
Instead, the original poster should focus on what makes Solaris secure to begin with and include differentials of system security when appropriate.
Please remove your anti-troll googles, your vision is getting blurred.
So, you also believe that Windows is fully as secure as Linux, then. Excellent.
Good use of false generalizations.
I believe the term "more secure" should be dropped from the usual hype and replaced with detailed features regarding each operating system's security. That way the user can decide which OS to pick based on facts versus marketing FUD.
But, no.. go ahead and think about the whole "security" thing as a 1-dimensional statistic, if that makes you warm and fuzzy.
3com, level1, and linksys are out there. As customer awareness for these products grow...
Allow me to increase your awareness... Linksys is a division of Cisco. That's why you see the "Copyright 2003 Cisco Systems, Inc." at the bottom of the Linksys home page.
*Whew*.. I'm glad you cleared that up. Because, for the life of me, I couldn't find any adequate metric that defines security using an agreed, quantitative metric within the Information Security industry.
Man, I loved that game and still believe that mod was, by far, the most realistic one I've ever seen. (laugh, yes, not completely realistic, but better than most IMHO)
Bolt-action sniper rifle = awesome. Every other game that's tried to come close doesn't do justice to the look and feel of the weapon. Plus, the skull cracking "head shot sound"... truely magificent!
Knifes with the Quake 2 physics engine were also unbelievable. I loved how you had to arc the throw in order to get any distance. It's also one of the few games where knife sniping is hilarious, unbelievable, and entertaining!
Ah, memories...
I would definately pay decent money if someone took that mod and applied it to the Doom 3 engine.
Last year, Mr. Lim made about $300,000 from player fees and commercials. Another top earner, Hung Jin-Ho,
whose fingers are insured for $60,000, recently signed a three-year deal with telecom provider KTF Co. that will pay him $480,000 altogether.
I know pro-sports players buy massive insurance... but exclusively for fingers?!?!
Hell, can I get a pro-rated discount for only insuring my thumb, index, and middle finger? What about only the dominant hand?
Reminds me of the Conan O'Brian skit: "In the year twoooo-thousand... People will be able to save $150 or more on their finger insurance by switching to Geico!
Notice:
DARPA has subsequently changed the event from "Grand Challenge" to "Most Extreme Elimination Challenge" in hopes of drawing more support and viewer coverage. Fox is asking for broadcasting rights.
- Many official documents require you to provide your fingerprint information. In fact, some gov't agencies even collect this information.
- Assume you would like to use your fingerprints for personal authentication for your own use (accessing computer system, data, etc... yes, I know it's a crappy tech for various reasons, but humor me)
- If someone can access your collected fingerprint data from the agency, he/she could (potentially) use this data to bypass your personal authentication.
Now, in that line of thought, replace "fingerprint" with "iris" and "personal authentication" with "commercial authentication".
Of course, if the email recipient was using an outbound web proxy, as in an "anonymizer", then you'd be hosed... Unless you reference a non-standard port number, where the browser tries to perform a direct connection to said server.... but you already knew that.
1) Boot from favorite UNIX-based OS-on-a-floppy. 2) Sector-by-sector copy the old HD to another new HD. 3) Grow/resize the new HD accordingly.. I don't think PartitionMagic has broken that. (And there are probably other utilities out there equally good) 4) Change the NT unique ID (if the old OS will remain on the old system).
Granted, it's not nice, nor really deployable.. but I don't see why it wouldn't work.
I wonder if anyone's tried running Xen *within* a VMware image. While this may seem redundant, it could be a method of trying to get the "best of both worlds"... that's assuming the additional overhead is well justified.
-- dforce
Why the hell did sourceforge.net have to go into maintenance mode *today* of all days...?
From the article:
...
Something that I'm convinced of is that the processors are going to migrate to where the transducers are. Thus, every display will be intelligent; every NIC will be intelligent; and, of course, every disk will be intelligent. I got the "smart disk" religion from you, Dave. You argued that each disk will become intelligent. Today each disk has a 200-megahertz processor and a few megabytes of RAM storage. That's enough to boot most operating systems. Soon they will have an IP interface and will be running Web servers and databases and file systems. Gradually, all the processors will migrate to the transducers: displays, network interfaces, cameras, disks, and other devices. This will happen over the next decade. It is a radically different architecture.
What I mean by that is it's going to have a gigahertz or better processor in it. And it will have a lot of RAM. And they will be able to run almost any piece of software that you can think of today. It could run Oracle or Exchange or any other app you can think of.
In that world, all the stuff about interfaces of SCSI and IDE and so on disappears. It's IP. The interface is probably Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) or some derivative of SOAP; you send requests to it and get back responses in a pretty high-level protocol. The IP sack does security and naming and discovery. So each of these "disks" will be an IP version 6 (IPv6) node--or IPv9.
...
Umm... so if I understand this, he envisions SOAP over IP to replace be the functional equivalent of DMA/SCSI transfers...
This is SOAP we're talking about here... not some mythical "uber-fast" protocol.
If the underlying hardware indeed got that fast to make SOAP over IP possible... wouldn't disks be that much faster with a tad bit more efficient (albeit a little less standardized) protocol?
Look, I know this is a bit selfish (and naive).. but I've been living in a place where this past year seems to be getting 8 to 10 months of pure winter.. when in the past (due to global warming) it was only about 2-3 months.
To that end, I wouldn't be suprised if there eventually surfaces a coalition FOR global warming..
Ya think that by v4.5, someone by now would have made an add-on so that pine can handle S/MIME certs, but nope... and this "feature" has been on the books since at least 1997.
Disclaimer: I'm no rocket scientist, nor claim to have lots of knowledge about air travel.
At a practical level, once you're travelling at 7.6 Mach, wouldn't you already be at your destination by then? Granted, it may be nice to circle the globe a couple of times effeciently (i.e. spy planes, etc) -- but for actual travel.. is the plan to try and get this effect to occur at a lower speed for it to be useful?
Kind of reminds me of the time a guy tried to apply for a patent pertaining to a "unique patent verification process". If approved, the patent organizations would be in violation of said patent, requiring them to pay royalties to the patent owner.
Personally, I think it was just this guy's unique way of pissing off the patent office when his original patent application was rejected.
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Obligatory techcrunch reference: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/28/can-att-handle-the-iphone/#comment-2886015
AT&T: You want answers?
TechCrunch: We think we're entitled to them.
AT&T: You want answers?!
TechCrunch: We want Google Voice on our iPhones.
AT&T: You can't handle the iPhone with Google Voice!
Son, we operate on network that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by carriers with restrictions. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Verizon Wireless? We have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Google Voice and you curse AT&T. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what we know: That pulling Google Voice, while tragic, probably saved the network. And our existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves the network.
You don't want the Google Voice on your iPhone. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about at TechCrunch50, you want us protecting the network. You need us protecting that network. We use words like rate limiting, application approval and restrictions...we use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline.
We have neither the time nor the inclination to explain ourselves to a blog who writes and profits under the blanket of the very network that we provide, then questions the manner in which we provide it. We'd prefer you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, we suggest you pick up a router and build your own network. Either way, We don't give a damn what you think you're entitled to.
TechCrunch: Did you order Google Voice taken down?
AT&T: We did the job you sent us to do.
TechCrunch: Did you order Google Voice taken down?
AT&T: You're goddamn right we did.
But, surely all of those Coke endorsements will save the polar bears!
/me drinks more Coke...
Sorry, it's not Jehuty.
Sigh... okay, I'll spell it out for you. I'm saying that the term "more secure" needs to die; I wasn't arguing that one OS was "more secure" than another.
Instead, the original poster should focus on what makes Solaris secure to begin with and include differentials of system security when appropriate.
Please remove your anti-troll googles, your vision is getting blurred.
-- dforce
So, you also believe that Windows is fully as secure as Linux, then. Excellent.
Good use of false generalizations.
I believe the term "more secure" should be dropped from the usual hype and replaced with detailed features regarding each operating system's security. That way the user can decide which OS to pick based on facts versus marketing FUD.
But, no.. go ahead and think about the whole "security" thing as a 1-dimensional statistic, if that makes you warm and fuzzy.
-- dforce
3com, level1, and linksys are out there. As customer awareness for these products grow...
Allow me to increase your awareness... Linksys is a division of Cisco. That's why you see the "Copyright 2003 Cisco Systems, Inc." at the bottom of the Linksys home page.
-- dforce
*Even* More secure than Linux
*Whew*.. I'm glad you cleared that up. Because, for the life of me, I couldn't find any adequate metric that defines security using an agreed, quantitative metric within the Information Security industry.
Oh wait, that's right, there is none.
Shoo! Go back to marketing.
-- dforce
Bring back Action Quake 2, baby!
Man, I loved that game and still believe that mod was, by far, the most realistic one I've ever seen. (laugh, yes, not completely realistic, but better than most IMHO)
Bolt-action sniper rifle = awesome. Every other game that's tried to come close doesn't do justice to the look and feel of the weapon. Plus, the skull cracking "head shot sound"... truely magificent!
Knifes with the Quake 2 physics engine were also unbelievable. I loved how you had to arc the throw in order to get any distance. It's also one of the few games where knife sniping is hilarious, unbelievable, and entertaining!
Ah, memories...
I would definately pay decent money if someone took that mod and applied it to the Doom 3 engine.
-- dforce
I know pro-sports players buy massive insurance... but exclusively for fingers?!?!
Hell, can I get a pro-rated discount for only insuring my thumb, index, and middle finger? What about only the dominant hand?
Reminds me of the Conan O'Brian skit: "In the year twoooo-thousand... People will be able to save $150 or more on their finger insurance by switching to Geico!
Okay... where's the obligatory ~50 bullet reason checksheet that we always see? C'mon... who's going to post it?
You know... the one that starts of with something like... "Here are the reasons why this solution will not work...."
Notice:
DARPA has subsequently changed the event from "Grand Challenge" to "Most Extreme Elimination Challenge" in hopes of drawing more support and viewer coverage. Fox is asking for broadcasting rights.
Thought process:
- Many official documents require you to provide your fingerprint information. In fact, some gov't agencies even collect this information.
- Assume you would like to use your fingerprints for personal authentication for your own use (accessing computer system, data, etc... yes, I know it's a crappy tech for various reasons, but humor me)
- If someone can access your collected fingerprint data from the agency, he/she could (potentially) use this data to bypass your personal authentication.
Now, in that line of thought, replace "fingerprint" with "iris" and "personal authentication" with "commercial authentication".
I think you see where I'm going with this...
- dforce
Of course, if the email recipient was using an outbound web proxy, as in an "anonymizer", then you'd be hosed... Unless you reference a non-standard port number, where the browser tries to perform a direct connection to said server. ... but you already knew that.
-- dforce
This may be naive but... what about:
1) Boot from favorite UNIX-based OS-on-a-floppy.
2) Sector-by-sector copy the old HD to another new HD.
3) Grow/resize the new HD accordingly.. I don't think PartitionMagic has broken that. (And there are probably other utilities out there equally good)
4) Change the NT unique ID (if the old OS will remain on the old system).
Granted, it's not nice, nor really deployable.. but I don't see why it wouldn't work.
-- dforce
Interesting concept.
I wonder if anyone's tried running Xen *within* a VMware image. While this may seem redundant, it could be a method of trying to get the "best of both worlds"... that's assuming the additional overhead is well justified.
-- dforce
Why the hell did sourceforge.net have to go into maintenance mode *today* of all days...?
From the article:
...
...
Something that I'm convinced of is that the processors are going to migrate to where the transducers are. Thus, every display will be intelligent; every NIC will be intelligent; and, of course, every disk will be intelligent. I got the "smart disk" religion from you, Dave. You argued that each disk will become intelligent. Today each disk has a 200-megahertz processor and a few megabytes of RAM storage. That's enough to boot most operating systems. Soon they will have an IP interface and will be running Web servers and databases and file systems. Gradually, all the processors will migrate to the transducers: displays, network interfaces, cameras, disks, and other devices. This will happen over the next decade. It is a radically different architecture.
What I mean by that is it's going to have a gigahertz or better processor in it. And it will have a lot of RAM. And they will be able to run almost any piece of software that you can think of today. It could run Oracle or Exchange or any other app you can think of.
In that world, all the stuff about interfaces of SCSI and IDE and so on disappears. It's IP. The interface is probably Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) or some derivative of SOAP; you send requests to it and get back responses in a pretty high-level protocol. The IP sack does security and naming and discovery. So each of these "disks" will be an IP version 6 (IPv6) node--or IPv9.
Umm... so if I understand this, he envisions SOAP over IP to replace be the functional equivalent of DMA/SCSI transfers...
This is SOAP we're talking about here... not some mythical "uber-fast" protocol.
If the underlying hardware indeed got that fast to make SOAP over IP possible... wouldn't disks be that much faster with a tad bit more efficient (albeit a little less standardized) protocol?
-- dforce
Yes there is. It's called SIP: Session Initiated Protocol. Here are a couple of references.
Look, I know this is a bit selfish (and naive).. but I've been living in a place where this past year seems to be getting 8 to 10 months of pure winter.. when in the past (due to global warming) it was only about 2-3 months.
To that end, I wouldn't be suprised if there eventually surfaces a coalition FOR global warming..
Ya think that by v4.5, someone by now would have made an add-on so that pine can handle S/MIME certs, but nope... and this "feature" has been on the books since at least 1997.
Damnit, I wanna see an episode where Anderson breaks out his trusty roll of duct tape!! ... Aww, c'mon.. at least the Swiss Army Knife!
Thank you very much.. I will now have this really bad image of the porno-version of Johnny Mnemonic in my head for this rest of the day.
Isn't that what the name "Release Candidate" (RC) is reserved for? Thus, should there be a 2.6-RC1 or 3.0-RC1 version?
-- my $0.02
At a practical level, once you're travelling at 7.6 Mach, wouldn't you already be at your destination by then? Granted, it may be nice to circle the globe a couple of times effeciently (i.e. spy planes, etc) -- but for actual travel.. is the plan to try and get this effect to occur at a lower speed for it to be useful?
Personally, I think it was just this guy's unique way of pissing off the patent office when his original patent application was rejected.