The only lesson learned is that there is no such thing as fully anonymous email service, it's always just a certain degree, especially when it comes to USA power play.
Worst /. title ever?
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And worst "editing" if such a fail got through.
I had my hopes too high for writing standards I guess;-)
Given what kind of data those guys get, maybe they used some of it to blackmail Nobel comitee to give "Peace" Prize to Obama?
Yes, extremely wild shot, but don't kid yourselves that such machinations aren't done. Power tripping is uncontrollable, from a street policeman up to the highest ranks.
Welcome to the land of free*
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I wrote that communist countries (mainly Soviet Russia) used certain methods, and that USA now uses them. This is accurate, as you have also described very clearly. Nothing about USA becoming a communist country.
This is exactly the methods used in Soviet Russia and other countries with similar political system.
For years various such countries lived under communism, and they finally got rid of it 25 years ago. For years USA was hailed as the "country of freedom", and it recently adopts communist-like methods.
In California if you want to purchase medicaments, they check your ID and input your date of birth to the cash register, because law prohibits sale of medicaments (known to Americans as "drugs") to minors. You also need to provide your ID and date of birth if you purchase a knife sharpener (made in China, of course). Sales of knives to minors is prohibited, and knife sharpeners are put under the same "knife" type of merchandise. Heck, you cannot even buy something as simple as contact lenses without a prescription! Apparently it is too dangerous for people to buy without doctor approval. Must be true, so many people in Europe die because they bought wrong lenses, right?
Combine this all with extensive spying on their own citizens, security theatre (most visibly by TSA) and now encouraging citizens to spy on the others... Stalin would have been proud!
What next? USA remake of Pavlik Morozov? Wait, they already have people sue their parents... some will surely chose to denounce instead.
(note: this is slightly on pessimist side to compensate for the optimists out there who will surely reply "nah, it's not an issue, we don't have a problem")
They easily can, translations are logged as is required by law in many countries.
CGN implementations provide for this in many forms, ranging from syslog (poor scalability) to netflow (pretty much industry standard for getting traffic info and logging it).
How many people call and ask for IPv6? That 0.01% who are technical and who care? For majority of subscribers it's rather: Q: Hello, do I need this IPv6? A: No, it gives you same things as IPv4. Q: Oh, thank you, I'll take just plain old IPv4 then, don't want to pay more for the same.
As for RFPs... sadly people ask for many things when they provide requirements, but do not quite use them. The very same companies that require or ask about IPv6 support when buying network equipment often just don't do anything with it afterwards, except for "ok, we future-proofed ourselves by asking for IPv6 in case someone forces it on us later on".
Fully agreed that CGN = more expenses (and therefore undesired), but "more IPv6 _you_ deploy" is not a sufficient condition by itself. You also depend on what _others_ do, and if there is a lot of content available only over IPv4 you still need a CGN in one form or another. Luckily Google, Youtube and some other large content provideers have already made the right thing and switched IPv6 on.
True, although those mechanisms are fairly new (=a bit late) and not widely commercially implemented at the moment (home-device support), compared to centralized "classic" NAT in form of a CGN device.
As you wrote - each of ISPs mentioned in the article says in one way or the other that CGN is a neccessity.
Problem with IPv6 is that the business case is weak. ISPs have to spend money upgrading to IPv6 without offering anything new to get more income from subscribers. CGN and "pay more for a public IPv4" is, sadly, one of such cases that is likely to go forward.
Even if an ISP implements IPv6 or dual stack for his residential customers, they will still face problems: - IPv6-only customer will not be able to reach IPv4-only content (and I bet there will be lots of it for years)) without CGN (NAT64) - not enough public IPv4 addresses for all customers mean that there has to be a form of NAT deployed centrally (CGN with NAT44) to provide them with IPv4 access (again, not all content is reachable by IPv6).
Of course public IPv4 addresses (going around CGN) will be still there, you will just need to pay more for them. Marketing departments are not going to miss such an occasion, after all they need a financial explanation to rollout of IPv6. If you want to host a game server or FTP, you still can. Just pay a tad more for the privilege, right?
IPv6 by itself is not going to resolve everything and avoid CGN usage. Those ISPs who say "we deployed IPv6 and it fixes everything" forget about the problem underneath (trailing/legacy IPv4 content).
[i]Clips hold two rounds together in a belt fed weapon[/i] Not quite. Belt usually uses links, not clips. Also check "Garand clip" or "Mauser clip" for a clip that holds more than 2 rounds.
Compression, of course. Even for 4K 3D (sic!)
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Pity that submitter/editor did not research further into the topic.
There are already standards (JPEG2000 DCI) that allow to compress 4K stream from about 5Gbit/s to 250 Mbit/s, which is much more manageable. There is at least one commercial vendor (intoPIX) that makes such hardware de/compressors.
If you want to stretch your imagination - start thinking about 3D movies in 4K, which is quite an obvious step. This is 12 Gbit/s uncompressed, but 500 Mbit/s in normal transmission.
Oh, by the way - 8K is already being worked on. And 8K 3D (48Gbit/s uncompressed)...
Routers (devices that forward your packets along the way) add much less than 1ms of delay. Single core router can add as low as 20ns. OP is obviously correct on this count.
You are right that it might be confusing what is added by the hop itself (router and light propagation delay in fiber), and what is user perceived latency. Your "ping" time is affected for example by how long it takes to process it on the target machine before sending back, and on your own machine before the result is displayed. Also count in relatively larger delays for access line (DSL/wireless) compared to core links. Those "ping" times are usually (much) larger than pure transmission times.
To be honest the process has probably already started, it's just a few years behind USA and some other countries.
What has already disappeared are some of the smaller bookstores and used books that used to be found at the major streets. In larger cities you would see even a few of them located at the main street, all busy. What made them disappear is high rental fees though, not lack of readership. Right now those spaces are taken by banks and banks and banks, paying top money for such good locations. Used books moved to more peripheral locations with cheaper rent, but you can still find them - it's just not in your normal walking path anymore.
Agreed about the overcharging, margins seem (seem, as I am not sure how this business works out) to be pretty high there. Locally difference was not as big as on your side of the pond, usually it's up to 20-25% cheaper, often price difference is just nominal.
Browsing is going along a row of books, scanning titles/authors with your eyes, picking a book to check, thumbing it open to a few passages etc. This is physical experience, and a streamlined one thanks to having random access to pages and to books. Then you get a bunch of other factors - size of the book (small ones for travel), thickness (number of pages is not the same), print quality etc. These do influence purchase decision, and are not palpable online.
"Look..." is clicking through the few pages (after clicking to get to that book), not moving your eyes from the screen, a whole different process. Don't take me wrong - this does work for reference manuals, technical books and similar where you can quickly judge if information you need is there. Not so much for fiction/non-fiction books, at least not for me.
I fully agree with you though that stock is a major obstacle when shopping for a particular book. When I know a particular book, I buy it online just like you b) choice. The books I still order through shops are ones that might get damaged while shipping (large format, albums etc). Makes it easier to resolve issue.
When I browse books at a shop with limited selection, there is still more than I can read anyway, so lack of particular book is not a problem;-)
While it is cheaper to buy online, it is not always better to do so. I usually buy online only books that I know I already decided to buy.
However I buy more books by visiting physical stores. This is the only place where I can go to and browse through the books, read a few passages, get acquainted with the volume in hand. This process is more important for me than hit-and-run browsing on the internet. Books are tangible goods for me.
I suspect USA president might have visited a bookstore for similar reason (except for PR) - he might have preferred to actually look the book over, decide about the purchase based on physical item, especially with children books.
While travelling to USA I was struck that so many bookshops have closed, starting with Borders. This was always a good place to visit, and I always came out with a handful of books that I would never find&buy otherwise. Now it is much harder to find a bookstore, as even other large chains (or rather the only one - B&N) closed many locations.
Amazon is NOT a competition there for me. I bought relatively few books through them compared to real store (about 1:5 ratio). This is not going to increase with lack of physical stores in USA.
While in my country this is the same - I buy majority of books in real shops, based on browsing. Similar ratio (1:5) is bought online as a result of reviews, recommandations and other sources that make me decide in advance. Luckily there is no shortage of bookstores where I live, and even with succesfull online retailers they are not going away.
What applies to books does not apply to music or movies - those can be easily searched for, reviewed, listened to and decided upon using online tools, with online purchase of a physical item.
PS: yes, I realise I am in a minority. I realize enough people think differently to me to cause bookstores closing.
I'm sorry to say that OP seems to be nationalistic about his "hacker countries" conception, promoting negative stereotypes, not to mention that he confused EU with Europe.
Top hacking countries are very different from Eastern Europe countries: USA (yup, still number 1 spot), China (Eastern, but not European), Russia (not Europe, just Eastern), Brazil, Germany (Europe and EU, but not Eastern), UK (an island off Europe coast), India (totally away from Europe)...
With your attempt at "humour" you basically allowed all those people right to hack your servers over the next two months;-)
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"America" is as much a country as "Europe" is.
Microsoft has changed UI name, seemingly due to trademark clash. It was even on /.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/08/03/1221242/microsoft-drops-metro-name-for-windows-8-ui
Just this time it's not Scientology sect, but governments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penet_remailer
The only lesson learned is that there is no such thing as fully anonymous email service, it's always just a certain degree, especially when it comes to USA power play.
And worst "editing" if such a fail got through.
I had my hopes too high for writing standards I guess ;-)
It was seconds, about 60 of them ;-)
Technically title is right, but I concur it is purely sensational, driving viewcount like bad newspapers.
It is BACTERIA that fixes nitrogen.
NOT NITROGEN that fixes bacteria.
Are there any editors around?
Given what kind of data those guys get, maybe they used some of it to blackmail Nobel comitee to give "Peace" Prize to Obama?
Yes, extremely wild shot, but don't kid yourselves that such machinations aren't done. Power tripping is uncontrollable, from a street policeman up to the highest ranks.
Welcome to the land of free*
*) void where prohibited by law, or security agency.
Why do you think I confuse it?
I wrote that communist countries (mainly Soviet Russia) used certain methods, and that USA now uses them. This is accurate, as you have also described very clearly. Nothing about USA becoming a communist country.
This is exactly the methods used in Soviet Russia and other countries with similar political system.
For years various such countries lived under communism, and they finally got rid of it 25 years ago. For years USA was hailed as the "country of freedom", and it recently adopts communist-like methods.
In California if you want to purchase medicaments, they check your ID and input your date of birth to the cash register, because law prohibits sale of medicaments (known to Americans as "drugs") to minors.
You also need to provide your ID and date of birth if you purchase a knife sharpener (made in China, of course). Sales of knives to minors is prohibited, and knife sharpeners are put under the same "knife" type of merchandise.
Heck, you cannot even buy something as simple as contact lenses without a prescription! Apparently it is too dangerous for people to buy without doctor approval. Must be true, so many people in Europe die because they bought wrong lenses, right?
Combine this all with extensive spying on their own citizens, security theatre (most visibly by TSA) and now encouraging citizens to spy on the others... Stalin would have been proud!
What next? USA remake of Pavlik Morozov?
Wait, they already have people sue their parents... some will surely chose to denounce instead.
(note: this is slightly on pessimist side to compensate for the optimists out there who will surely reply "nah, it's not an issue, we don't have a problem")
They easily can, translations are logged as is required by law in many countries.
CGN implementations provide for this in many forms, ranging from syslog (poor scalability) to netflow (pretty much industry standard for getting traffic info and logging it).
This is obviously targeted at Iranian audience.
Analysing it outside of political influence on Iran's own people is mostly a waste of time.
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How many people call and ask for IPv6?
That 0.01% who are technical and who care?
For majority of subscribers it's rather:
Q: Hello, do I need this IPv6?
A: No, it gives you same things as IPv4.
Q: Oh, thank you, I'll take just plain old IPv4 then, don't want to pay more for the same.
As for RFPs... sadly people ask for many things when they provide requirements, but do not quite use them. The very same companies that require or ask about IPv6 support when buying network equipment often just don't do anything with it afterwards, except for "ok, we future-proofed ourselves by asking for IPv6 in case someone forces it on us later on".
Fully agreed that CGN = more expenses (and therefore undesired), but "more IPv6 _you_ deploy" is not a sufficient condition by itself. You also depend on what _others_ do, and if there is a lot of content available only over IPv4 you still need a CGN in one form or another.
Luckily Google, Youtube and some other large content provideers have already made the right thing and switched IPv6 on.
True, although those mechanisms are fairly new (=a bit late) and not widely commercially implemented at the moment (home-device support), compared to centralized "classic" NAT in form of a CGN device.
As you wrote - each of ISPs mentioned in the article says in one way or the other that CGN is a neccessity.
Problem with IPv6 is that the business case is weak. ISPs have to spend money upgrading to IPv6 without offering anything new to get more income from subscribers. CGN and "pay more for a public IPv4" is, sadly, one of such cases that is likely to go forward.
Even if an ISP implements IPv6 or dual stack for his residential customers, they will still face problems:
- IPv6-only customer will not be able to reach IPv4-only content (and I bet there will be lots of it for years)) without CGN (NAT64)
- not enough public IPv4 addresses for all customers mean that there has to be a form of NAT deployed centrally (CGN with NAT44) to provide them with IPv4 access (again, not all content is reachable by IPv6).
Of course public IPv4 addresses (going around CGN) will be still there, you will just need to pay more for them. Marketing departments are not going to miss such an occasion, after all they need a financial explanation to rollout of IPv6.
If you want to host a game server or FTP, you still can. Just pay a tad more for the privilege, right?
IPv6 by itself is not going to resolve everything and avoid CGN usage. Those ISPs who say "we deployed IPv6 and it fixes everything" forget about the problem underneath (trailing/legacy IPv4 content).
[i]Clips hold two rounds together in a belt fed weapon[/i]
Not quite.
Belt usually uses links, not clips.
Also check "Garand clip" or "Mauser clip" for a clip that holds more than 2 rounds.
Pity that submitter/editor did not research further into the topic.
There are already standards (JPEG2000 DCI) that allow to compress 4K stream from about 5Gbit/s to 250 Mbit/s, which is much more manageable. There is at least one commercial vendor (intoPIX) that makes such hardware de/compressors.
If you want to stretch your imagination - start thinking about 3D movies in 4K, which is quite an obvious step. This is 12 Gbit/s uncompressed, but 500 Mbit/s in normal transmission.
Oh, by the way - 8K is already being worked on. And 8K 3D (48Gbit/s uncompressed)...
Routers (devices that forward your packets along the way) add much less than 1ms of delay. Single core router can add as low as 20ns. OP is obviously correct on this count.
You are right that it might be confusing what is added by the hop itself (router and light propagation delay in fiber), and what is user perceived latency. Your "ping" time is affected for example by how long it takes to process it on the target machine before sending back, and on your own machine before the result is displayed. Also count in relatively larger delays for access line (DSL/wireless) compared to core links.
Those "ping" times are usually (much) larger than pure transmission times.
Eastern Europe ;-)
To be honest the process has probably already started, it's just a few years behind USA and some other countries.
What has already disappeared are some of the smaller bookstores and used books that used to be found at the major streets. In larger cities you would see even a few of them located at the main street, all busy.
What made them disappear is high rental fees though, not lack of readership. Right now those spaces are taken by banks and banks and banks, paying top money for such good locations. Used books moved to more peripheral locations with cheaper rent, but you can still find them - it's just not in your normal walking path anymore.
Agreed about the overcharging, margins seem (seem, as I am not sure how this business works out) to be pretty high there. Locally difference was not as big as on your side of the pond, usually it's up to 20-25% cheaper, often price difference is just nominal.
"Look inside" is still clicking, not browsing.
Browsing is going along a row of books, scanning titles/authors with your eyes, picking a book to check, thumbing it open to a few passages etc. This is physical experience, and a streamlined one thanks to having random access to pages and to books. Then you get a bunch of other factors - size of the book (small ones for travel), thickness (number of pages is not the same), print quality etc. These do influence purchase decision, and are not palpable online.
"Look..." is clicking through the few pages (after clicking to get to that book), not moving your eyes from the screen, a whole different process. Don't take me wrong - this does work for reference manuals, technical books and similar where you can quickly judge if information you need is there. Not so much for fiction/non-fiction books, at least not for me.
I fully agree with you though that stock is a major obstacle when shopping for a particular book. When I know a particular book, I buy it online just like you b) choice. The books I still order through shops are ones that might get damaged while shipping (large format, albums etc). Makes it easier to resolve issue.
When I browse books at a shop with limited selection, there is still more than I can read anyway, so lack of particular book is not a problem ;-)
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I was wrong, he seems to already have a list prepared, just bought it locally. Not what I meant.
"Then Obama reportedly whipped out his BlackBerry smartphone, on which he made a shopping book list."
While it is cheaper to buy online, it is not always better to do so. I usually buy online only books that I know I already decided to buy.
However I buy more books by visiting physical stores. This is the only place where I can go to and browse through the books, read a few passages, get acquainted with the volume in hand. This process is more important for me than hit-and-run browsing on the internet. Books are tangible goods for me.
I suspect USA president might have visited a bookstore for similar reason (except for PR) - he might have preferred to actually look the book over, decide about the purchase based on physical item, especially with children books.
While travelling to USA I was struck that so many bookshops have closed, starting with Borders. This was always a good place to visit, and I always came out with a handful of books that I would never find&buy otherwise. Now it is much harder to find a bookstore, as even other large chains (or rather the only one - B&N) closed many locations.
Amazon is NOT a competition there for me. I bought relatively few books through them compared to real store (about 1:5 ratio). This is not going to increase with lack of physical stores in USA.
While in my country this is the same - I buy majority of books in real shops, based on browsing. Similar ratio (1:5) is bought online as a result of reviews, recommandations and other sources that make me decide in advance.
Luckily there is no shortage of bookstores where I live, and even with succesfull online retailers they are not going away.
What applies to books does not apply to music or movies - those can be easily searched for, reviewed, listened to and decided upon using online tools, with online purchase of a physical item.
PS: yes, I realise I am in a minority. I realize enough people think differently to me to cause bookstores closing.
> Most of the arms are smuggled in my ship
You are very open about your support for smuggling ;-)
I'm sorry to say that OP seems to be nationalistic about his "hacker countries" conception, promoting negative stereotypes, not to mention that he confused EU with Europe.
Top hacking countries are very different from Eastern Europe countries: USA (yup, still number 1 spot), China (Eastern, but not European), Russia (not Europe, just Eastern), Brazil, Germany (Europe and EU, but not Eastern), UK (an island off Europe coast), India (totally away from Europe)...
With your attempt at "humour" you basically allowed all those people right to hack your servers over the next two months ;-)