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VoIP Questioned
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Wow. that article is a total clusterfsck...
Broadband over power is dead due to FCC restriction...
TiVos can use an ethernet link and DHCP to get their updates... And besides, they make VoIP phone adapters...
And who wants their home number in a book anyway? I've forgone the "unlisted number" charge, and as a result received more phone spam than god ever knew...
Kinda makes me wonder who's pushing them to get this published on the website. Apparently noone interested in facts, or logic...
Or it might be that you just read the article, and more or less parroted what a more experienced individual said. Especialy given that anyone who deals w/ BGP on a regular basis knows (or better know) how to secure peering links against this kind of vulnerability.
It's actually quite trivial to do. ebgp-multihop and using the remote host loopback address as the neighbor IP, along with a few small architectural configuration tricks are all that's needed to completely prevent this kind of attack, or, at the very least, minimize it significantly.
Are _you_ going to scan, not only the entire range of source ports, but all those ports times the entire RFC1918 address space? Good luck killing my systems, buddy, 'cause that's what you're in for.
Oh, even with the large window sizes, once you've found all the above, you've still got to find my sequence numbers.
look, it's _dead_ for fsck's sake
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Could someone just put a bullet in this intellectual property? There are no new commercial applications being written for this platform. Anything of significant merit is being done elsewhere. Development tools on other platforms have moved on, while this has stagnated. There's no turning back the clock.
where they say that recounts aren't needed due to the wide margins of victory. Did these braniacs ever consider that maybe the reason for the wide margins IS THAT MORE PEOPLE VOTED THAN REGISTERED.
Poll worker incompetence aside, the only real alternative to this is to start over. I don't care what they think the margin of error is, due to the number of blatantly screwed up ballots, as soon as there's ANY QUESTION, you THROW THE VOTE OUT AND START OVER. This may not be economically feasable; I'm unfamiliar with the frequency of these kinds of problems.
If you've caught this many misvotes that actually hit the system, how many did you miss?
Nope. Best estimates show that not only did VT get them for the educational price, they got it far below that. The ballpark for the machines was US$2200/system, and that's w/ the extra 3.5GB of DDR400. The rest of the 5 mil went to cover the Infiniband switches and Cisco Catalysts.
So, given that they're going for $200 under retail pricing, Apple's making money both ways on these machines. I'd really hope there's some additional swag here, otherwise, it's a really crappy value proposition.
She saw the audit sticker and assumed I stole it and gave it to her. Still doesn't believe me to this day that the computer is legit
You've got some real trust problems WRT your GF.
Unless you've given her a real reason to make said assumption, I'd dump her ass ASAP. That's going to turn into real trouble later in your relationship.
ON TOPIC CONTENT: Does anyone know if the discount is off the retail price, or off the educational price?
The Catholic Church was insturmental in holding together Western European civilization in the wake of the fallen Roman Empire. It united Christendom, and helped civilize and temper the barbarian hordes. In addition, we have them to thank for preserving ancient literature and learning.
Uhh, the only "ancient literature" they preserved was their own book. Almost everything else was burned. It's my understanding that most of the gaps in the historical record for 1000BC to 1000AD are a direct result of the efforts of the Catholic Church.
All of us on/. like to cheerlead the coming wave of nanotech, but it's looking more all the time that while we may be on the cusp of a new industrial revolution, like the first IR, it will bring horrors to match its benefits. Probably the most significant point made by the article is that while this tech could be very beneficial, due to our lack of understanding of surface chemistry of most living organisms, some of the byproducts could be toxic to levels previously unknown to exist.
Significant is this bit from the article:
On average the reactions [to nanotube inhalation] were worse than those in mice given equal amounts of quartz particles, which toxicologists use as their "serious damage" standard.
And this is from one dose, and they further state that even without continued exposure, the existing particles continued to produce damage, presumably beyond what a single exposure to quartz dust might produce.
I fear that we'll rush headlong into this without thorough research, and do significant damage to ourselves and the rest of the world. Yah, that sounds all "tree huggy," but when they talk about accidentally killing all soil microorganisms over a large area, frankly, that kind of scares me.
I'm starting to tilt towards a rant, so I'll keep this short, but given our recent history (asbestos, PCBs, tetraethyl lead), we're probably going to find ourselves chasing waste streams yet again, only much worse this time around.
heh. Don't get to thinking that just because Honda makes a car, it's beyond reproach where mechanical failures are concerned. The S is one of Honda's more "tempermental" products of late.
The rear end of the car is a time bomb. The diff tends to push itself out the back of the casing, and the facing surface of the inside universal joints experience severe galling where the differential outdrives wear a circular hole into them. Note that this takes about 30 kilomiles, give or take 3k, right about the time that the manufacturer's warranty expires.
Additionally, the transmission has a severe design flaw WRT the internal lubrication system. Seems the tranny oil pickup is not only on the far side of the housing, but it's halfway up the wall to boot, so that in hard corners, the gear oil sloshes away from the pickup tube, starving the transmission of lubricant. The transmission oiler is driven on the output shaft of the transmission, so that at speeds above 80mph, the system rotates at over 11,000 RPM, whipping the oil into a froth rather than pumping it. IIRC, Honda Europe ordered a mass recall of all units shipped, as after about an hour of 100+ MPH driving, the transmission will seize solid, rendering the car undriveable. For those of us on this side of the pond w/o the benefit of the Autobahn, there's the 2nd-gear grind issue, where the syncros fail prematurely due to a "stacking tolerance" issue, making the 1-2 shift grind horribly, ending w/ second being difficult, if not impossible, to get into.
The driver's window switch failure. The seat belt locking mechanism failure. Most spectacularly, the number four cylinder oiling failure, resulting in a ruined engine and a new shortblock for pretty much every car w/ manufacture dates between May and August of 2000.
Oh, then there's the warranty support issues, where the Honda warranty is null and void if you ever "race" the car, yet it comes w/ an SCCA registration card. Plus, most of the dealers have no experience supporting a car this pricey, where "well, we fixed it once, you must have broken it on purpose" is the phrase of the hour.
I'm just glad I got out of mine when I did. Not that I experienced even half of these problems, but the ones I did (the 2nd gear thing, window switch, and the rear end 'click,' the first hint of diff failure) made me wake up and realize that there are no golden brands where cars are concerned.
Most early investors would be looking to cash out. That's what most VC guys do, AFAICT.
IPOs aren't about perking employees. They're about ROI for venture capitalists, and huge bonuses for the executive management. Other reasons include raising cash for business expansion, but that seems to be kind of a side benefit these days.
oooh! I can hear another AC rant on how wrong I am coming!
too bad you posted anonymously. you could have scored some real karma with an analysis like this. Heck, if I could mod in a thread in which I'd posted, I'd bump this as much as possible.
Slashdot needs more people w/ real experience to bring facts to the table like this.
It seems to me that Google could very well be sitting on a large pool of cash that might make it worth some corporate raiders' time to finance a huge takeover and pay for it out of that pool of money. If Google purposely diversifies their operation to initiatives that might not ever turn a profit, they can reduce that pool prior to IPO. Might not be the brightest choice right out of the box, but given that their price is sure to reduce over two-three quarters post-IPO, it'll reduce their attractiveness to a takeover attempt.
Of course, being private at this time, none of this has any basis in fact. Although, the fact that Google's probably going to spend $25mil on this suggests that they really do have stupid piles of cash, and can afford to potentially toss big chunks of it away on potential failures.
Actually, no, some of the affected services run on IOS as part of the Plus images for the 7000, 6500, 8500, and 12000 series routers. Most of the Bug ID references in the Cisco advisory detail issues where the H.323 handler goes nuts and consumes all the CPU on the router.
As you can guess, this does not help router performance:)
just a buffer overflow. I'm not really surprised; sooner or later this was going to happen. I'm just surprised that it popped up in Cisco's case.
Altho, as I think about it, I get the feeling that Cisco got a bunch of network multimedia handling code from MS. I remember back in '98 or '99, they announced a software partnership w/ MS, causing much hand-wringing on/. to the effect that we might see NT-based routers. IOS is too heavily leveraged in Cisco's products, but the actual processes and services that run on it could come from anybody.
The fact that this looks to a few vendors (MS and Cisco being the biggies), and knowing how MS looks to diversify only makes me wonder how much of MS's wonderful code has managed to worm it's way into the other devices I use...
Hmm... Maybe this had something to do w/ all the dreadful STP and bridging issues I had on the Catalyst 8540 platform...
Here are some ideas for texts you might try to deconstruct, once you are ready to attempt it yourself, graded by approximate level of difficulty:
[snip]
Tour de Force: James Joyce's Finnegans Wake the San Jose, California telephone directory IRS Form 1040 the Intel i486DX Programmer's Reference Manual the Mississippi River anything by Baudrillard
that "suggested design" has got to be one of the worst things I've ever seen. I can just imagine what it would be like to hold one, kinda like the Sega Nomad. waay to big, and you can't operate the thing one-handed. Besides, what's really the point in portable video devices like that? I mean, sure, you can take maybe six DVDs along w/ you, plus your music collection, but who watches stuff on the go? If you're walking somewhere, you need to watch where you're going, not some collection of flicks you D/Led. The same thing applies to driving.
As for flights, most people in the market for that thing are probably going to have laptops, which for the most part serve the same purpose. On top of all this, the price is just dumb. Low-end laptops are about the same price, and have similar enough features to render this device unnecessary. Maybe the uber-gadget-freak market would buy this, but it's never going to be a mainstream item, at least not in my lifetime.
No, it won't. But I still don't get playlists. I don't get full iTunes compatibility. I've got less capacity than the rumored 2GB unit, and I have to change disks. I've also got to haul around a honking gigantic (by comparison) CD-player that doesn't fit in any pocket I own.
Those features are enough to justify another fifty bucks.
Except that you lose the option of having playlists, the player requires more power per song played (the DVD's gonna have a _way_ higher rotational moment of inertia, so spinup and spindown are more costly), and it's still not as iTunes-compatible. Sure, the hypothetical DVD-player could still use iTunes, but now that we're up to a DVD-player, it's _going_ to be more expensive, esp. considering most of the rumors are fora sub-$100 device.
And CDs have the same playist issues, along with lesser capacity.
This is going to pretty much kill in the low end Flash-based player market. I was looking at Fry's this weekend, and everything in the $49-99 range only came w/ 128MB, upgradeable to 640. Even assuming that the low-end Apple mini-iPod is only 1-2GB, it's got those other players beat by a mile, and hey, it works w/ iTunes!
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Wow. that article is a total clusterfsck...
Broadband over power is dead due to FCC restriction...
TiVos can use an ethernet link and DHCP to get their updates... And besides, they make VoIP phone adapters...
And who wants their home number in a book anyway? I've forgone the "unlisted number" charge, and as a result received more phone spam than god ever knew...
Kinda makes me wonder who's pushing them to get this published on the website. Apparently noone interested in facts, or logic...
I, for one, welcome our new soccer robot masters...
Not just serial, just about everything (ethernet, token ring, FDDI, etc) has approximately a 10:1 conversion factor from bits/sec to bytes/sec.
oh the hell w/ all of it. let's just reduce the entire planet to a warm plasma and be done with it. that way, NO WHINING.
actually, I thought that he posted a rather good summation of the NYT article liked above.
ah, but you're trolling...
Or it might be that you just read the article, and more or less parroted what a more experienced individual said. Especialy given that anyone who deals w/ BGP on a regular basis knows (or better know) how to secure peering links against this kind of vulnerability.
It's actually quite trivial to do. ebgp-multihop and using the remote host loopback address as the neighbor IP, along with a few small architectural configuration tricks are all that's needed to completely prevent this kind of attack, or, at the very least, minimize it significantly.
Are _you_ going to scan, not only the entire range of source ports, but all those ports times the entire RFC1918 address space? Good luck killing my systems, buddy, 'cause that's what you're in for.
Oh, even with the large window sizes, once you've found all the above, you've still got to find my sequence numbers.
Could someone just put a bullet in this intellectual property? There are no new commercial applications being written for this platform. Anything of significant merit is being done elsewhere. Development tools on other platforms have moved on, while this has stagnated. There's no turning back the clock.
GET OUT NOW WHILE YOU STILL CAN...
where they say that recounts aren't needed due to the wide margins of victory. Did these braniacs ever consider that maybe the reason for the wide margins IS THAT MORE PEOPLE VOTED THAN REGISTERED.
Poll worker incompetence aside, the only real alternative to this is to start over. I don't care what they think the margin of error is, due to the number of blatantly screwed up ballots, as soon as there's ANY QUESTION, you THROW THE VOTE OUT AND START OVER. This may not be economically feasable; I'm unfamiliar with the frequency of these kinds of problems.
If you've caught this many misvotes that actually hit the system, how many did you miss?
Nope. Best estimates show that not only did VT get them for the educational price, they got it far below that. The ballpark for the machines was US$2200/system, and that's w/ the extra 3.5GB of DDR400. The rest of the 5 mil went to cover the Infiniband switches and Cisco Catalysts.
So, given that they're going for $200 under retail pricing, Apple's making money both ways on these machines. I'd really hope there's some additional swag here, otherwise, it's a really crappy value proposition.
She saw the audit sticker and assumed I stole it and gave it to her. Still doesn't believe me to this day that the computer is legit
You've got some real trust problems WRT your GF.
Unless you've given her a real reason to make said assumption, I'd dump her ass ASAP. That's going to turn into real trouble later in your relationship.
ON TOPIC CONTENT: Does anyone know if the discount is off the retail price, or off the educational price?
The Catholic Church was insturmental in holding together Western European civilization in the wake of the fallen Roman Empire. It united Christendom, and helped civilize and temper the barbarian hordes. In addition, we have them to thank for preserving ancient literature and learning.
Uhh, the only "ancient literature" they preserved was their own book. Almost everything else was burned. It's my understanding that most of the gaps in the historical record for 1000BC to 1000AD are a direct result of the efforts of the Catholic Church.
All of us on /. like to cheerlead the coming wave of nanotech, but it's looking more all the time that while we may be on the cusp of a new industrial revolution, like the first IR, it will bring horrors to match its benefits. Probably the most significant point made by the article is that while this tech could be very beneficial, due to our lack of understanding of surface chemistry of most living organisms, some of the byproducts could be toxic to levels previously unknown to exist.
Significant is this bit from the article:
On average the reactions [to nanotube inhalation] were worse than those in mice given equal amounts of quartz particles, which toxicologists use as their "serious damage" standard.
And this is from one dose, and they further state that even without continued exposure, the existing particles continued to produce damage, presumably beyond what a single exposure to quartz dust might produce.
I fear that we'll rush headlong into this without thorough research, and do significant damage to ourselves and the rest of the world. Yah, that sounds all "tree huggy," but when they talk about accidentally killing all soil microorganisms over a large area, frankly, that kind of scares me.
I'm starting to tilt towards a rant, so I'll keep this short, but given our recent history (asbestos, PCBs, tetraethyl lead), we're probably going to find ourselves chasing waste streams yet again, only much worse this time around.
why not? I regularly see eBay auctions for used Mac hardware that's priced in the range of new systems, and that's for antiquated CRT iMac boxen.
heh. Don't get to thinking that just because Honda makes a car, it's beyond reproach where mechanical failures are concerned. The S is one of Honda's more "tempermental" products of late.
The rear end of the car is a time bomb. The diff tends to push itself out the back of the casing, and the facing surface of the inside universal joints experience severe galling where the differential outdrives wear a circular hole into them. Note that this takes about 30 kilomiles, give or take 3k, right about the time that the manufacturer's warranty expires.
Additionally, the transmission has a severe design flaw WRT the internal lubrication system. Seems the tranny oil pickup is not only on the far side of the housing, but it's halfway up the wall to boot, so that in hard corners, the gear oil sloshes away from the pickup tube, starving the transmission of lubricant. The transmission oiler is driven on the output shaft of the transmission, so that at speeds above 80mph, the system rotates at over 11,000 RPM, whipping the oil into a froth rather than pumping it. IIRC, Honda Europe ordered a mass recall of all units shipped, as after about an hour of 100+ MPH driving, the transmission will seize solid, rendering the car undriveable. For those of us on this side of the pond w/o the benefit of the Autobahn, there's the 2nd-gear grind issue, where the syncros fail prematurely due to a "stacking tolerance" issue, making the 1-2 shift grind horribly, ending w/ second being difficult, if not impossible, to get into.
The driver's window switch failure. The seat belt locking mechanism failure. Most spectacularly, the number four cylinder oiling failure, resulting in a ruined engine and a new shortblock for pretty much every car w/ manufacture dates between May and August of 2000.
Oh, then there's the warranty support issues, where the Honda warranty is null and void if you ever "race" the car, yet it comes w/ an SCCA registration card. Plus, most of the dealers have no experience supporting a car this pricey, where "well, we fixed it once, you must have broken it on purpose" is the phrase of the hour.
I'm just glad I got out of mine when I did. Not that I experienced even half of these problems, but the ones I did (the 2nd gear thing, window switch, and the rear end 'click,' the first hint of diff failure) made me wake up and realize that there are no golden brands where cars are concerned.
you can't. and since the SCOTUS can't line-item an act, the whole thing gets pitched, and the Legislative branch gets to start over.
Congress can't legislate it's way out of judicial review.
Most early investors would be looking to cash out. That's what most VC guys do, AFAICT.
IPOs aren't about perking employees. They're about ROI for venture capitalists, and huge bonuses for the executive management. Other reasons include raising cash for business expansion, but that seems to be kind of a side benefit these days.
oooh! I can hear another AC rant on how wrong I am coming!
Thanks for the heads up.
too bad you posted anonymously. you could have scored some real karma with an analysis like this. Heck, if I could mod in a thread in which I'd posted, I'd bump this as much as possible.
Slashdot needs more people w/ real experience to bring facts to the table like this.
It seems to me that Google could very well be sitting on a large pool of cash that might make it worth some corporate raiders' time to finance a huge takeover and pay for it out of that pool of money. If Google purposely diversifies their operation to initiatives that might not ever turn a profit, they can reduce that pool prior to IPO. Might not be the brightest choice right out of the box, but given that their price is sure to reduce over two-three quarters post-IPO, it'll reduce their attractiveness to a takeover attempt.
Of course, being private at this time, none of this has any basis in fact. Although, the fact that Google's probably going to spend $25mil on this suggests that they really do have stupid piles of cash, and can afford to potentially toss big chunks of it away on potential failures.
Actually, no, some of the affected services run on IOS as part of the Plus images for the 7000, 6500, 8500, and 12000 series routers. Most of the Bug ID references in the Cisco advisory detail issues where the H.323 handler goes nuts and consumes all the CPU on the router.
:)
As you can guess, this does not help router performance
just a buffer overflow. I'm not really surprised; sooner or later this was going to happen. I'm just surprised that it popped up in Cisco's case.
/. to the effect that we might see NT-based routers. IOS is too heavily leveraged in Cisco's products, but the actual processes and services that run on it could come from anybody.
Altho, as I think about it, I get the feeling that Cisco got a bunch of network multimedia handling code from MS. I remember back in '98 or '99, they announced a software partnership w/ MS, causing much hand-wringing on
The fact that this looks to a few vendors (MS and Cisco being the biggies), and knowing how MS looks to diversify only makes me wonder how much of MS's wonderful code has managed to worm it's way into the other devices I use...
Hmm... Maybe this had something to do w/ all the dreadful STP and bridging issues I had on the Catalyst 8540 platform...
Here are some ideas for texts you might try to deconstruct, once you are ready to attempt it yourself, graded by approximate level of difficulty:
[snip]
Tour de Force:
James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
the San Jose, California telephone directory
IRS Form 1040
the Intel i486DX Programmer's Reference Manual
the Mississippi River
anything by Baudrillard
Comedy Gold!
just... ick.
that "suggested design" has got to be one of the worst things I've ever seen. I can just imagine what it would be like to hold one, kinda like the Sega Nomad. waay to big, and you can't operate the thing one-handed. Besides, what's really the point in portable video devices like that? I mean, sure, you can take maybe six DVDs along w/ you, plus your music collection, but who watches stuff on the go? If you're walking somewhere, you need to watch where you're going, not some collection of flicks you D/Led. The same thing applies to driving.
As for flights, most people in the market for that thing are probably going to have laptops, which for the most part serve the same purpose. On top of all this, the price is just dumb. Low-end laptops are about the same price, and have similar enough features to render this device unnecessary. Maybe the uber-gadget-freak market would buy this, but it's never going to be a mainstream item, at least not in my lifetime.
No, it won't. But I still don't get playlists. I don't get full iTunes compatibility. I've got less capacity than the rumored 2GB unit, and I have to change disks. I've also got to haul around a honking gigantic (by comparison) CD-player that doesn't fit in any pocket I own.
Those features are enough to justify another fifty bucks.
Except that you lose the option of having playlists, the player requires more power per song played (the DVD's gonna have a _way_ higher rotational moment of inertia, so spinup and spindown are more costly), and it's still not as iTunes-compatible. Sure, the hypothetical DVD-player could still use iTunes, but now that we're up to a DVD-player, it's _going_ to be more expensive, esp. considering most of the rumors are fora sub-$100 device.
And CDs have the same playist issues, along with lesser capacity.
This is going to pretty much kill in the low end
:)
Flash-based player market. I was looking at Fry's this weekend, and everything in the $49-99 range only came w/ 128MB, upgradeable to 640. Even assuming that the low-end Apple mini-iPod is only 1-2GB, it's got those other players beat by a mile, and hey, it works w/ iTunes!
I'm really looking forward to next year