Let me guess: you're not a lawyer, but play one on TV?
The laws of salvage do not apply. In fact, according to the relevant U.N. treaty
Article VIII
A State Party to the Treaty on whose registry an object launched into
outer space is carried shall retain jurisdiction and control over such
object, and over any personnel thereof, while in outer space or on a
celestial body. Ownership of objects launched into outer space,
including objects landed or constructed on a celestial body, and of
their component parts, is not affected by their presence in outer
space or on a celestial body or by their return to the Earth. Such
objects or component parts found beyond the limits of the State Party
to the Treaty on whose registry they are carried shall be returned to
that State Party, which shall, upon request, furnish identifying data
prior to their return.
"Whoever embezzles, steals, purloins, or knowingly converts to his use or
the use of another, or without authority, sells,
conveys or disposes of any record, voucher, money, or thing of value of the
United States or of any department or
agency thereof, or any property made or being made under contract for the
United States or any department or agency
thereof; or..."
NASA has never relinquished control of the spacecraft, in case you hadn't noticed.
I am not a lawyer, nor do I suffer fools lightly...
Continuus
(now owned by Telelogic) uses Informix as its back end.
Runs on Windows, Solaris, Linux, etc. etc. etc.
Re:Use Existing Technology
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Is Hyperchip Hype?
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· Score: 2, Informative
Why do you care what the number of hops is? When you can do line-rate forwarding of packets (as most modern switch/routers can), it's irrelevant. Just because your traceroute shows "2, maybe 3 routers" doesn't mean that's all it's traversing (could be going through a LSP); in fact, I'll put money that you can't show me a trace across the country between two endstations that doesn't go over at least 4-6 routers.
BGP is not a Cisco protocol, it's an IETF draft standard (see RFC 1771); every router worth its salt for the last 7-10 years has supported it.
Also, asymmetrical routes are not necessarily bad; there's load-balancing, administrative weighting...
The terabit market flopped, so go faster!
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Is Hyperchip Hype?
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· Score: 3, Interesting
This is a company on its fourth round of financing ($220M CDN invested to date), with no announced customers - or even beta trials.. and they've been around since 1997?
Another thing is that article is misleading; they really received $12M in funding, and added another $31M in repayable loans from the Canadian government. Again, the numbers quoted in the article are Canadian dollars, not US.
Several terabit router companies have failed (such as Ironbridge
) and others are having problems, a la Avici along with Nexabit.
For more entertainment, read the article and comments in Light Reading.
It's not the bandwidth, it's the services. Besides, who can afford to provision 65,000 OC-192s?
Sorry to hear that - the Northeast support group was far and away the best, since the old Highway1 days. It was never a good sign when the tech who answered would try to figure out how to pronounce the towns around me... and then I'd have to explain why a routing loop is bad.. but they'd tell me the weather in Jacksonville was nice.
Did they nuke all of the regions and just leave Denver?
AT&T Broadband (formerly MediaOne/RoadRunner, formerly MediaOne Express, formerly Highway1) gives you up to three IPs per modem for an additional charge of $9.95/mo.
That option has been available for about two years. In fact, they now even have packages for 'home networking' where they're selling Linksys gear via a third party but supporting it themselves. linkified
One thing that I noticed about the new Microsoft
security bulletins is that they now contain Web bugs. The bugs
look like they are used to count the number of people coming
to read the bulletins. Here is the URL for one of these bugs:
http://c.microsoft.com/trans_pixel.asp?source=www& TYPE=PV&p=technet_security_bulletin
. I didn't see a tag for the bug, so I'm assuming
it is generated by one of the JavaScript files included
on the page.
It may be innocuous - just to see which are popular - but they could do that via log analysis, or a visible counter..
You suggest having IP addresses be allocated by geographic region, except that geography often has little to nothing to do with network topology.
Peering points are geographic locations; a provider's internal network is not dictated by peering points. A typical Tier 1 provider may be hauling OC-48 links between a dozen cities, but not peer with anyone at most of them; your suggestion would require these "servers" to know the internal addressing schemes of semi-private networks to be able to parcel out appropriate addresses.
Two other problems: DHCP doesn't scale (which is essentially what you'd be providing - semi-dynamically provide addressing and routing information), and DNS isn't exactly a good model to base things on; the performance isn't great, and it's quite vulnerable (see Bind V9 for more info).
And IPv6 is not widely deployed; try to get a connection to the 6bone. Microsoft has no intention of formally releasing IPv6 in Windows 2000 for at least two years (according to their people).
(and technically, I suppose one could argue that it's a worm, not a virus.. the nifty little critter that ran if Outlook had auto-preview turned on, however..)
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Article VIII
A State Party to the Treaty on whose registry an object launched into outer space is carried shall retain jurisdiction and control over such object, and over any personnel thereof, while in outer space or on a celestial body. Ownership of objects launched into outer space, including objects landed or constructed on a celestial body, and of their component parts, is not affected by their presence in outer space or on a celestial body or by their return to the Earth. Such objects or component parts found beyond the limits of the State Party to the Treaty on whose registry they are carried shall be returned to that State Party, which shall, upon request, furnish identifying data prior to their return.
Plus the applicable U.S. code
"Whoever embezzles, steals, purloins, or knowingly converts to his use or the use of another, or without authority, sells, conveys or disposes of any record, voucher, money, or thing of value of the United States or of any department or agency thereof, or any property made or being made under contract for the United States or any department or agency thereof; or..."
NASA has never relinquished control of the spacecraft, in case you hadn't noticed.
I am not a lawyer, nor do I suffer fools lightly...
Runs on Windows, Solaris, Linux, etc. etc. etc.
Why do you care what the number of hops is? When you can do line-rate forwarding of packets (as most modern switch/routers can), it's irrelevant. Just because your traceroute shows "2, maybe 3 routers" doesn't mean that's all it's traversing (could be going through a LSP); in fact, I'll put money that you can't show me a trace across the country between two endstations that doesn't go over at least 4-6 routers.
BGP is not a Cisco protocol, it's an IETF draft standard (see RFC 1771); every router worth its salt for the last 7-10 years has supported it.
Also, asymmetrical routes are not necessarily bad; there's load-balancing, administrative weighting...
Another thing is that article is misleading; they really received $12M in funding, and added another $31M in repayable loans from the Canadian government. Again, the numbers quoted in the article are Canadian dollars, not US.
Several terabit router companies have failed (such as Ironbridge ) and others are having problems, a la Avici along with Nexabit.
For more entertainment, read the article and comments in Light Reading.
It's not the bandwidth, it's the services. Besides, who can afford to provision 65,000 OC-192s?
Sorry to hear that - the Northeast support group was far and away the best, since the old Highway1 days. It was never a good sign when the tech who answered would try to figure out how to pronounce the towns around me... and then I'd have to explain why a routing loop is bad.. but they'd tell me the weather in Jacksonville was nice.
Did they nuke all of the regions and just leave Denver?
That option has been available for about two years. In fact, they now even have packages for 'home networking' where they're selling Linksys gear via a third party but supporting it themselves. linkified
One thing that I noticed about the new Microsoft security bulletins is that they now contain Web bugs. The bugs look like they are used to count the number of people coming to read the bulletins. Here is the URL for one of these bugs: http://c.microsoft.com/trans_pixel.asp?source=www& TYPE=PV&p=technet_security_bulletin
. I didn't see a tag for the bug, so I'm assuming
it is generated by one of the JavaScript files included
on the page.
It may be innocuous - just to see which are popular - but they could do that via log analysis, or a visible counter..
-dg-
You suggest having IP addresses be allocated by geographic region, except that geography often has little to nothing to do with network topology.
Peering points are geographic locations; a provider's internal network is not dictated by peering points. A typical Tier 1 provider may be hauling OC-48 links between a dozen cities, but not peer with anyone at most of them; your suggestion would require these "servers" to know the internal addressing schemes of semi-private networks to be able to parcel out appropriate addresses.
Two other problems: DHCP doesn't scale (which is essentially what you'd be providing - semi-dynamically provide addressing and routing information), and DNS isn't exactly a good model to base things on; the performance isn't great, and it's quite vulnerable (see Bind V9 for more info).
And IPv6 is not widely deployed; try to get a connection to the 6bone. Microsoft has no intention of formally releasing IPv6 in Windows 2000 for at least two years (according to their people).
-dg-
BTW, typo - meant script vs. macro.
(and technically, I suppose one could argue that it's a worm, not a virus.. the nifty little critter that ran if Outlook had auto-preview turned on, however..)
-dg-
This macro virus - one of the earlier Outlook ones - was from last July. Check out the Symantec page for more info.
If you're running Outlook and not scanning attachments, you deserve what you get.
-dg-