Which has NOTHING to do with "Net Neutrality", even though the anti-neutrality people don't QUITE seem to get that it doesn't prove their point or that anyone's turning their back on things.
Net neutrality is about applying the same consistent rules for all content and not munging for "quality of service" reasons the stuff. If Google's stuff gets there to you more robustly and quicker, it's because it's spending quite a bit of money putting HARDWARE they maintain closer to you and more of it.
The stuff the net neutrality people are harping on about is where the crap the ISP's are shovelling gets priority unless you pay them protection money.
The biggest problem I have with the whole thing is that the parties in question should know that it was 3rd degree burn hot out of a pot to begin with- it's that hot coming out of most consumer and restaurant coffee pots (As in 155-160 deg water will cause a 3rd degree burn in an adult in approximately 1-2 seconds of sustained exposure...). To sue a company over it and win because there were "past incidents" that they knew about is disturbing because pretty much anyone's going to know that it's THAT hot to begin with. You're supposed to allow it to cool down slightly from serving temp anyhow. Putting a fragile cup of the stuff between your legs is inviting disaster no matter what temp it actually is- it's going to scald/burn you period.
The whole thing is divorced from common sense in a way that shouldn't have happened. The people that got injured did something STUPID on their own- why reward it with anything other than what mother nature usually does when you do things like that, hm? It's not like McD's poured the stuff directly in her lap. Moreover, nobody going on and on about the "risk" will tell you that the temps involved with Coffee will almost ALWAYS cause 3rd degree burns if you apply it for more than a couple of seconds, even at the "lower temperature" that the other restaurants serve it at.
The lawsuit shouldn't have happened in the first place. And if it had, it should have not went the way it did.
Believe what you want. In my case, it's not a religious remark. I'm a security professional, thank you very much. They're telling you like it is. YOUR remark is the mantra of the religion of putting more into the government- there's no reasoning, no contemplation of what the consequences might be, nothing. Just a blind faith that the government that brought you the current economic crisis (don't buy that it was the Republicans OR the Democrats- both parties' people are to blame here...) and a whole host of other things are going to get this right.
WHY was your post modded insightful? You present an argument, but don't back it up. They already HAVE the ability to look up most state licenses right now without this amongst other things.
It does NOTHING of what you think it will. It does NOTHING of what they claim it will.
Trying to make them more uniform does nothing for security.
Trying to make them all be in a single database (i.e. One of the other requirements of RealID) makes it easier to hack in or grab a single ID and go to town with ID theft. (Niiice...)
With it not doing what it says it does and increasing the risks involved with it all, it doesn't make ANY sense whatsoever.
If you don't give the mob their money, they break your body.
If you don't give the RIAA their money, they feed you feet-first through the Federal Court system wherein you end up owing millions that you'll never be able to pay, but the Federal Gov't will ENFORCE the collection thereof unless you can get proven innocent either at trial or on appeal.
This is close to being it...they're guilty of conversion. That transforms them into a priority creditor with a 3.5 million dollar claim to things before anything else.
I doubt SCOX could mount an appeal effort. If they could, it's going to have to be something where they had some tidbit of the law overlooked where they didn't get a fair trial, because there's nothing else for them to actually appeal otherwise.
I don't have an answer for the "why not use" remark other than the 6 are largely embedded/handheld distros, which have differing decisions that wouldn't work as nicely as you'd think for a POS machine or a MID.
As for the C7 remark, yeah, you wouldn't have to recompile, but the power usage with the C7 will be 5-6 times the level of the Cortex-A8, but not offer any performance advantage. Now, the Nano's a differing story. It'd be a speed lift. But only compared to the A8. An A9 SoC (which none have taped out yet...yet...) would either come close to beating the pants off of a VIA Nano or do so- and consume 1/10th the power or less doing it.
No, what NatSemi had bought was the craptacular MediaGX line from Cyrix, which was subsequently bought by AMD. "Geode" with AMD means the GX1 (Which is the NatSemi version...), the GX2 (now branded "LX"...), and the NX (which is a rebadged Athlon XP+ at extreme low power...).
The NX is AMD's answer to Intel's Pre-Atom embedded stuff (and was a good one...)- but AMD doesn't seem to have an Atom answer...yet.
It sounds like all they did was allow you to store a Hibernate to Disk snapshot of your system at startup before anything else gets done- which is technically cheating. ANYTHING can boot up in about 4 or seconds that way.:-D
That's *AN* implementation of the CellBE architecture- one that Sony had 'em cripple. There's another one IBM makes for people that's very, very fast and is at the heart of several supercomputer projects for things like on Nuke Subs done up by Mercury Computer Systems and with things like Fixstars sells.
Whomever modded your remark "insightful" didn't get that the PS3 was but one of several different CellBE iterations.
Unfortunately you missed that it takes a bit of time to get into the mess we're currently in- and a hell of a lot more than just the President can actually manage to screw up.
It's one that several Congress' and several Presidents, with both parties presiding over the fiasco, took to bring about. Approximately 10-12 years, in fact, to get us where we are.
Sprint. They offer their data plans separate and for a relatively reasonable rate with or without a phone contract attached. Moreover, it seems that while they don't have as much penetration of total voice coverage that Verizon has arranged, they have more high-speed coverage than Verizon seems to have (For example... While my EVDO phone has full-on coverage, GPS, etc. here in the DFW area, on a trip to OKC to acquire some new horses at auction for the horse farm venture I'm partners in, the GPS plain flat didn't work. Excuse? It only works in the high-speed data areas (EVDO) and they're working on rolling it out in other areas. Sprint's works. AT&T works (We ended up using my partner's iPhone to navigate into the hotel on the way up there...so much for GPS from Verizon...).
Don't bother with Verizon Wireless on that one. Sprint seems to be the only player in that space worth messing with (AT&T seems to want an silly amount of money for the 3G services in comparison...)
Depends on if you were going to get data access or not. If you're getting both, then $59/mo for what you'd have gotten ANYHOW means that you got a laptop with access for $100. If you're not doing that, then it's not a good deal, no.
The only real reason that this isnt the best option is that Linux (and BSD) are heavier on battery life than WindowsXP. I run linux on my laptop and have on other laptops and linux sucks down the battery faster.
And as a developer, I will state that I've had the opposite experience with Ubuntu on my HP Pavilion dv9000 (Never booted with Vista while in my possession...) and, the previous Pavilion dv6000, the Compaq Evo n800, and my eeePC.
Keep in mind the eeePC with Xandros runs better and actually has a slightly better life than the XP install on the same class of machine. If your claim is correct, why is this the case?
They're not going to be able to AFFORD the old style stuff because of that deepness.
So either they will do without or subsidize and use the FOSS stuff instead. If it's about money, the proprietary stuff loses- what they're spouting off is opposite thinking.
Unfortunately, they're enforcing their interpretation of the letter of their contract, which is actually quite a bit different than what they did. They claim it's warez. Unfortunately for the ISP, they didn't do their due diligence on the matter in question and while they believe it was infringing content, they've no proof thereof (which is required, actually, for them to carry out the letter of their contract in this case...) and they, in fact, have very probably brought at least a breach of contract suit on their heads if the guys choose to sue.
Heh... Actually, if you're not working in or around the utility industry, you'd not know much about how little security they really have. Moreover, even if it's not "on" the Internet, the machines that control the system typically are on it. How does the SCADA system hand them metrics they use in their business systems? You're telling me that the systems are standalones and they hand copy thousands of lines of data into their business end systems? If you think that, you'd be way wrong. If they're not standalones, then there's an attack vector through the corporate LAN of the utility (and it's been demonstrated that this is very doable...).
I'm not doing a chicken little play here. I'm just stating facts as I know them, either from people who WOULD know or what I've seen myself. It's not time for panic, no. But it is time for deep, deep concern- and doing something about it that fixes this problem instead of plowing billions into a "virtual border" that didn't work until recently because it was contaminated with a Windows Worm program.
If you're wondering whom my business partners are, go look up Larry Ness of Nessgroup International and Joseph Weiss (The gent that actually did that video that DHS released to the public...). It's not quite as bad as it sounds, but it's definitely way worse than many people whom ought to know better are trying to make it sound like- like there's little to no risk whatsoever.
Chip and Pin as you're flogging is NOT secure as you're claiming...
http://www.chipandspin.co.uk/ points out that one CAN be defeated, and disturbingly EASILY. Heck, the supposedly even more secure Passport RFID was breached recently and in a way that at least the bulk of the RFID readers for it can't detect the tampering.
Heh... If you believe that this will protect us, you'd be sadly mistaken.
It's not as simple as what they showed in Family Guy- but it's dead easy to compromise a substation or a power plant itself. Once you have that, you can screw with just about anything- brown-outs, surges, etc. Pick the right substations and you can bring about blackouts like the 2003 East Coast one- some nastier than that one to say the least.
Most of the stuff has been automated for remote control from a central command center, using 70's tech to do it with. With it, you can literally cause a turbine generator to self-destruct.
Nuke a turbine like that, it'll take months for a single regular power plant to replace it- we don't make them here in the States and we don't stockpile parts for this sort of stuff.
Yes. They DO have stuff like that accessible after a fashion. It makes it "easier" to control the systems and using the Internet to do it is cheaper and more cost effective.
Now, having said this, there are ways to mitigate part of the risks. Using part of the dark fiber along the high-tension corridors (Most of them have fiber along them already, not being used, left over from the dot-com bust...) and run an in-parallel "Internet" with specialized gateways and Non-Windows based SCADA RTMs and servers. While it's more expensive, it's vastly more secure, but cheaper than the older alternatives.
It's something of a frustration to me since I've got some of the answers, but no funding (been trying for the last 5+ years now...) to execute some of the fixes that we desperately need to implement.
We have a serious problem and it's not getting fixed.
You bought $9K worth of equipment to be used in an illegal, unlicensed manner? Sorry, while I feel for your expenditures there, I can't quite join in and say you've got any rights in the matter. You need to realize that you may have to EAT that $9k (If you were licensed, it'd be a completely different matter, sorry...) and buy new gear to get a workable answer.
We're tapdancing around the problem here that can be best solved much like the manner that's being suggested. There's all sorts of services that're wasting bandwidth (mics, music/talk radio, TV, etc...) that are better served with digital service. Seriously.
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Which has NOTHING to do with "Net Neutrality", even though the anti-neutrality people don't QUITE seem to get that it doesn't prove their point or that anyone's turning their back on things.
Net neutrality is about applying the same consistent rules for all content and not munging for "quality of service" reasons the stuff. If Google's stuff gets there to you more robustly and quicker, it's because it's spending quite a bit of money putting HARDWARE they maintain closer to you and more of it.
The stuff the net neutrality people are harping on about is where the crap the ISP's are shovelling gets priority unless you pay them protection money.
The biggest problem I have with the whole thing is that the parties in question should know that it was 3rd degree burn hot out of a pot to begin with- it's that hot coming out of most consumer and restaurant coffee pots (As in 155-160 deg water will cause a 3rd degree burn in an adult in approximately 1-2 seconds of sustained exposure...). To sue a company over it and win because there were "past incidents" that they knew about is disturbing because pretty much anyone's going to know that it's THAT hot to begin with. You're supposed to allow it to cool down slightly from serving temp anyhow. Putting a fragile cup of the stuff between your legs is inviting disaster no matter what temp it actually is- it's going to scald/burn you period.
The whole thing is divorced from common sense in a way that shouldn't have happened. The people that got injured did something STUPID on their own- why reward it with anything other than what mother nature usually does when you do things like that, hm? It's not like McD's poured the stuff directly in her lap. Moreover, nobody going on and on about the "risk" will tell you that the temps involved with Coffee will almost ALWAYS cause 3rd degree burns if you apply it for more than a couple of seconds, even at the "lower temperature" that the other restaurants serve it at.
The lawsuit shouldn't have happened in the first place. And if it had, it should have not went the way it did.
Believe what you want. In my case, it's not a religious remark. I'm a security professional, thank you very much. They're telling you like it is. YOUR remark is the mantra of the religion of putting more into the government- there's no reasoning, no contemplation of what the consequences might be, nothing. Just a blind faith that the government that brought you the current economic crisis (don't buy that it was the Republicans OR the Democrats- both parties' people are to blame here...) and a whole host of other things are going to get this right.
WHY was your post modded insightful? You present an argument, but don't back it up. They already HAVE the ability to look up most state licenses right now without this amongst other things.
It does NOTHING of what you think it will.
It does NOTHING of what they claim it will.
Trying to make them more uniform does nothing for security.
Trying to make them all be in a single database (i.e. One of the other requirements of RealID) makes it easier to hack in or grab a single ID and go to town with ID theft. (Niiice...)
With it not doing what it says it does and increasing the risks involved with it all, it doesn't make ANY sense whatsoever.
Uh, not always.
Look at all the injunctions placed in Civil cases. In many cases you start out uneven the other way or on equal footing.
Shouldn't that "::" really be "=="??
If you don't give the mob their money, they break your body.
If you don't give the RIAA their money, they feed you feet-first through the Federal Court system wherein you end up owing millions that you'll never be able to pay, but the Federal Gov't will ENFORCE the collection thereof unless you can get proven innocent either at trial or on appeal.
This is close to being it...they're guilty of conversion. That transforms them into a priority creditor with a 3.5 million dollar claim to things before anything else.
I doubt SCOX could mount an appeal effort. If they could, it's going to have to be something where they had some tidbit of the law overlooked where they didn't get a fair trial, because there's nothing else for them to actually appeal otherwise.
Not at all. They could be carried.
What? A swallow carrying a coconut?
I don't have an answer for the "why not use" remark other than the 6 are largely embedded/handheld distros, which have differing decisions that wouldn't work as nicely as you'd think for a POS machine or a MID.
As for the C7 remark, yeah, you wouldn't have to recompile, but the power usage with the C7 will be 5-6 times the level of the Cortex-A8, but not offer any performance advantage. Now, the Nano's a differing story. It'd be a speed lift. But only compared to the A8. An A9 SoC (which none have taped out yet...yet...) would either come close to beating the pants off of a VIA Nano or do so- and consume 1/10th the power or less doing it.
No, what NatSemi had bought was the craptacular MediaGX line from Cyrix, which was subsequently bought by AMD. "Geode" with AMD means the GX1 (Which is the NatSemi version...), the GX2 (now branded "LX"...), and the NX (which is a rebadged Athlon XP+ at extreme low power...).
The NX is AMD's answer to Intel's Pre-Atom embedded stuff (and was a good one...)- but AMD doesn't seem to have an Atom answer...yet.
It sounds like all they did was allow you to store a Hibernate to Disk snapshot of your system at startup before anything else gets done- which is technically cheating. ANYTHING can boot up in about 4 or seconds that way. :-D
You're thinking PS3...
That's *AN* implementation of the CellBE architecture- one that Sony had 'em cripple. There's another one IBM makes for people that's very, very fast and is at the heart of several supercomputer projects for things like on Nuke Subs done up by Mercury Computer Systems and with things like Fixstars sells.
Whomever modded your remark "insightful" didn't get that the PS3 was but one of several different CellBE iterations.
Unfortunately you missed that it takes a bit of time to get into the mess we're currently in- and a hell of a lot more than just the President can actually manage to screw up.
It's one that several Congress' and several Presidents, with both parties presiding over the fiasco, took to bring about. Approximately 10-12 years, in fact, to get us where we are.
I wouldn't be doing Verizon with this one.
Sprint. They offer their data plans separate and for a relatively reasonable rate with or without a phone contract attached. Moreover, it seems that while they don't have as much penetration of total voice coverage that Verizon has arranged, they have more high-speed coverage than Verizon seems to have (For example... While my EVDO phone has full-on coverage, GPS, etc. here in the DFW area, on a trip to OKC to acquire some new horses at auction for the horse farm venture I'm partners in, the GPS plain flat didn't work. Excuse? It only works in the high-speed data areas (EVDO) and they're working on rolling it out in other areas. Sprint's works. AT&T works (We ended up using my partner's iPhone to navigate into the hotel on the way up there...so much for GPS from Verizon...).
Don't bother with Verizon Wireless on that one. Sprint seems to be the only player in that space worth messing with (AT&T seems to want an silly amount of money for the 3G services in comparison...)
Depends on if you were going to get data access or not. If you're getting both, then $59/mo for what you'd have gotten ANYHOW means that you got a laptop with access for $100. If you're not doing that, then it's not a good deal, no.
There's a nasty, nasty price for a business if they get caught out doing that. Better to do without or use the FOSS stuff- seriously.
Just ask Ernie Ball if you want an example of this sort of thing.
And as a developer, I will state that I've had the opposite experience with Ubuntu on my HP Pavilion dv9000 (Never booted with Vista while in my possession...) and, the previous Pavilion dv6000, the Compaq Evo n800, and my eeePC.
Keep in mind the eeePC with Xandros runs better and actually has a slightly better life than the XP install on the same class of machine. If your claim is correct, why is this the case?
Doesn't make it any different.
The reality is, people need to do IT-type things.
They're not going to be able to AFFORD the old style stuff because of that deepness.
So either they will do without or subsidize and use the FOSS stuff instead. If it's about money, the proprietary stuff loses- what they're spouting off is opposite thinking.
NEVER EVER say "It can't get stupider than this", or "What else can go wrong".
The Universe will conspire to see to it to show you JUST how much moreso it can be than you ever imagined...
Unfortunately, they're enforcing their interpretation of the letter of their contract, which is actually quite a bit different than what they did. They claim it's warez. Unfortunately for the ISP, they didn't do their due diligence on the matter in question and while they believe it was infringing content, they've no proof thereof (which is required, actually, for them to carry out the letter of their contract in this case...) and they, in fact, have very probably brought at least a breach of contract suit on their heads if the guys choose to sue.
Heh... Actually, if you're not working in or around the utility industry, you'd not know much about how little security they really have. Moreover, even if it's not "on" the Internet, the machines that control the system typically are on it. How does the SCADA system hand them metrics they use in their business systems? You're telling me that the systems are standalones and they hand copy thousands of lines of data into their business end systems? If you think that, you'd be way wrong. If they're not standalones, then there's an attack vector through the corporate LAN of the utility (and it's been demonstrated that this is very doable...).
I'm not doing a chicken little play here. I'm just stating facts as I know them, either from people who WOULD know or what I've seen myself. It's not time for panic, no. But it is time for deep, deep concern- and doing something about it that fixes this problem instead of plowing billions into a "virtual border" that didn't work until recently because it was contaminated with a Windows Worm program.
If you're wondering whom my business partners are, go look up Larry Ness of Nessgroup International and Joseph Weiss (The gent that actually did that video that DHS released to the public...). It's not quite as bad as it sounds, but it's definitely way worse than many people whom ought to know better are trying to make it sound like- like there's little to no risk whatsoever.
Chip and Pin as you're flogging is NOT secure as you're claiming...
http://www.chipandspin.co.uk/ points out that one CAN be defeated, and disturbingly EASILY. Heck, the supposedly even more secure Passport RFID was breached recently and in a way that at least the bulk of the RFID readers for it can't detect the tampering.
Heh... If you believe that this will protect us, you'd be sadly mistaken.
It's not as simple as what they showed in Family Guy- but it's dead easy to compromise a substation or a power plant itself. Once you have that, you can screw with just about anything- brown-outs, surges, etc. Pick the right substations and you can bring about blackouts like the 2003 East Coast one- some nastier than that one to say the least.
Most of the stuff has been automated for remote control from a central command center, using 70's tech to do it with. With it, you can literally cause a turbine generator to self-destruct.
This video shows some of what happens if you have SCADA control over a 10kw commercial backup turbine
Nuke a turbine like that, it'll take months for a single regular power plant to replace it- we don't make them here in the States and we don't stockpile parts for this sort of stuff.
Yes. They DO have stuff like that accessible after a fashion. It makes it "easier" to control the systems and using the Internet to do it is cheaper and more cost effective.
Now, having said this, there are ways to mitigate part of the risks. Using part of the dark fiber along the high-tension corridors (Most of them have fiber along them already, not being used, left over from the dot-com bust...) and run an in-parallel "Internet" with specialized gateways and Non-Windows based SCADA RTMs and servers. While it's more expensive, it's vastly more secure, but cheaper than the older alternatives.
It's something of a frustration to me since I've got some of the answers, but no funding (been trying for the last 5+ years now...) to execute some of the fixes that we desperately need to implement.
We have a serious problem and it's not getting fixed.
You bought $9K worth of equipment to be used in an illegal, unlicensed manner? Sorry, while I feel for your expenditures there, I can't quite join in and say you've got any rights in the matter. You need to realize that you may have to EAT that $9k (If you were licensed, it'd be a completely different matter, sorry...) and buy new gear to get a workable answer.
We're tapdancing around the problem here that can be best solved much like the manner that's being suggested. There's all sorts of services that're wasting bandwidth (mics, music/talk radio, TV, etc...) that are better served with digital service. Seriously.