They say they are going to switch from CDMA to GSM, but why do they have to alienate all their existing customers by switching protocols? The network should support both CDMA and GSM simultaneously. That should be their goal, to support as many different devices as possible, instead of just particular phones.
All one has to do is look at the main competitor to Comcast, which is Verizon, and look at how they do the same type of stuff. They block outbound SMTP traffic except to their smtp servers...
Why would anyone write a vehicle navigation system in an interpreted language anyway? Microsoft gives out these languages hoping people will use it, yet none of their code actually uses it. C# reminds me of GWBasic from the 80's or Visual Basic from the 90's.
Traditional lie detector tests can easily be tricked into whatever answer you want. Functional MRI (fMRI) are the only form of lie detector that should be trusted to be used in a court. At least the probability of defrauding a fMRI lie detector is much lower than traditional lie detector tests.
Sounds like the people over at coupons.com don't know how to properly implement such a system that can keep track of "coupons" issued to subscribers. By allowing the client to distribute its own coupons, they introduced a design flaw. The server should distribute the keys. They should learn a lesson, fix their broken-ware and move on. Don't shoot the messenger.
The internet will never be heading for a "crash", all that will happen is broadband customers will have their packets throttled to whatever limit the upstream provider wants. This has already been happening for almost the last ten years. It's convenient for people who want the broadband providers to upgrade their bandwidth to reference this "crash" idea but it is impossible to ever actually happen due to the traffic shaping already in effect at most (if not all large) ISP's today.
The obvious problem with this article is they mention using "Bastille" and forget to mention grsec. I don't really care about Bastille, but I do care about using grsec. Just because you turn off some services doesnt mean someone is not going to pop an xterm off your apache web server from some random cgi vulnerability... At least when someone compromises your web server in this way (which is probably how most linux web servers get compromised these days anyway), the attacker wont be able to do anything besides navigate the directory tree maybe. The attacker wont be able to view processes that are outside their own uid. The attacker wont be able to execute binaries outside of the standard bin directories (so custom scripts/binaries wont execute), and stack overflows do not allow execution of arbitrary code.. Its not a very fun environment to work in, most attackers will just look around and exit when confined to this type of environment...
first you would have to dismantle the fair use doctrine in the copyright act...unfortunately for them, sharing copyrighted material between devices at home currently is considered fair use... you paid for the material once already -- its going to be hard for them to prove that paying over and over and over for an audio music file is reasonable...
I'm sure if you had to pay for repeat broadcasts of television shows, people would probably stop watching television...
The article says that they are using older style nicad batteries instead of standard lithium ion batteries... all tests of the plugin hybrid vehicles have been using the standard lithium ion batteries. why would they go with the older style batteries which are technically inferior to the current batteries?
I would say incompetence... Craigslist has been plauged by incompetence since they started and small problems turn into big problems and make their site completely unusable. Their decision to use ambiguous messages like "This posting has been Published" in their anti-spam fight has made their system unreliable. One only has to take a look at the help forum for indication that their admins really do not care about the reliability of the system and questions about the constant downtime and unreliable nature of the postings are answered with vague condescending responses from staff members. Postings say they are Published and in fact they never show up on the site. This has been going on for months now with no end in sight. I would say they need a few good systems engineers to fix what's going on, however, you would almost conclude that they enjoy and even relish the moments when their site is completely unreliable or offline for days at a time. It makes one wish of a day when a competent site with competent administration would come along to replace this type of environment.
1. talk negatively about company on quote.yahoo.com message boards 2. watch their stock price go low...low...low 3. buy company at low stock price 4. profit!!!
How does a file passing through one of these devices get tagged? I would assume that they would attempt to modify some of the bytes in the stream. This is going to be detected on one end by doing a md5sum and the hashes not matching up. Also, if they modify bytes in transit, they could mangle a file easily if done incorrectly. They may even be liable for damages by purposely selling broken hardware.
The article fails to mention the fact that its fairly easy to avoid congestion when you institute rate limiting / traffic shaping on outbound traffic. From the article, it sounds like the ISP's like comcast have no choice but to remove people from the network who are causing congestion for the rest of the users on a subnet. This is not the case, as it is simple to configure a router to control the flow of bandwidth to a particular link. This can be done on a connection basis, protocol basis, port basis, etc.
Would it be that far fetched that someone is paying Dell to *not* fully endorse/support Linux? These stories about Dell "will soon support linux" have been published about once a year for the last ten years. I don't think it's ever going to happen, and I would just conclude that a large company with vested interest in seeing Linux fail is responsible for it. A lot of other vendors support Linux, the main difference here is that Dell is the largest distributor of new Windows/Intel PC's.
The article claims that Vonage was in violation of "3 out of 5" patents owned by Verizon, but does not list any information about the actual patents except to claim that they dealt with call waiting and voicemail. I did a little research and was unable to find any reference to these patent numbers. Does anyone have any more information on the patents or their actual numbers or the court filings?
Personally I've been using my own API to google's search engine for much longer than google has put out an API... Ultimately screen scraping works and although you may have to spend a little bit longer getting the work done, it still works really well. You should really get off being spoon fed and write your own scraper/crawler engines and dont rely on someones API for doing scraping work anyway. I laughed back when Ebay/paypal offered their API for free because I had already written my own many years earlier. Another reason not to use these silly API's is that I dont want these people knowing how many times i'm pulling down data from their network... Ultimately they would probably blacklist my netblock anyway if they monitored what I was using their pipe for.
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I don't know about you, but I first saw w00t circa 1990 on efnet #hack... didnt he have an account on upt.org?
No wonder why the dropout rates are so high!
They say they are going to switch from CDMA to GSM, but why do they have to alienate all their existing customers by switching protocols? The network should support both CDMA and GSM simultaneously. That should be their goal, to support as many different devices as possible, instead of just particular phones.
All one has to do is look at the main competitor to Comcast, which is Verizon, and look at how they do the same type of stuff. They block outbound SMTP traffic except to their smtp servers...
Mark is a sales guy, and as such his comments are taken with the grain of salt that it deserves.
is this really news? vomit has been out since 2001 and etherreal has been doing this since about 2003...
Why would anyone write a vehicle navigation system in an interpreted language anyway? Microsoft gives out these languages hoping people will use it, yet none of their code actually uses it. C# reminds me of GWBasic from the 80's or Visual Basic from the 90's.
was followed by "Every Breath You Take" by The Police.... "Every step you take ... I'll be watching you..."
Traditional lie detector tests can easily be tricked into whatever answer you want. Functional MRI (fMRI) are the only form of lie detector that should be trusted to be used in a court. At least the probability of defrauding a fMRI lie detector is much lower than traditional lie detector tests.
ISC dhcpd doesn't have a way to deal with this? Shame on paul vixie.
I for one welcome our patent troll overlords.
I for one welcome our evil monkey overlords.
If this were an issue of DRM, then maybe... RTA idiot.
Sounds like the people over at coupons.com don't know how to properly implement such a system that can keep track of "coupons" issued to subscribers. By allowing the client to distribute its own coupons, they introduced a design flaw. The server should distribute the keys. They should learn a lesson, fix their broken-ware and move on. Don't shoot the messenger.
The internet will never be heading for a "crash", all that will happen is broadband customers will have their packets throttled to whatever limit the upstream provider wants. This has already been happening for almost the last ten years. It's convenient for people who want the broadband providers to upgrade their bandwidth to reference this "crash" idea but it is impossible to ever actually happen due to the traffic shaping already in effect at most (if not all large) ISP's today.
The obvious problem with this article is they mention using "Bastille" and forget to mention grsec. I don't really care about Bastille, but I do care about using grsec. Just because you turn off some services doesnt mean someone is not going to pop an xterm off your apache web server from some random cgi vulnerability... At least when someone compromises your web server in this way (which is probably how most linux web servers get compromised these days anyway), the attacker wont be able to do anything besides navigate the directory tree maybe. The attacker wont be able to view processes that are outside their own uid. The attacker wont be able to execute binaries outside of the standard bin directories (so custom scripts/binaries wont execute), and stack overflows do not allow execution of arbitrary code.. Its not a very fun environment to work in, most attackers will just look around and exit when confined to this type of environment...
first you would have to dismantle the fair use doctrine in the copyright act...unfortunately for them, sharing copyrighted material between devices at home currently is considered fair use... you paid for the material once already -- its going to be hard for them to prove that paying over and over and over for an audio music file is reasonable... I'm sure if you had to pay for repeat broadcasts of television shows, people would probably stop watching television...
The article says that they are using older style nicad batteries instead of standard lithium ion batteries... all tests of the plugin hybrid vehicles have been using the standard lithium ion batteries. why would they go with the older style batteries which are technically inferior to the current batteries?
I would say incompetence... Craigslist has been plauged by incompetence since they started and small problems turn into big problems and make their site completely unusable. Their decision to use ambiguous messages like "This posting has been Published" in their anti-spam fight has made their system unreliable. One only has to take a look at the help forum for indication that their admins really do not care about the reliability of the system and questions about the constant downtime and unreliable nature of the postings are answered with vague condescending responses from staff members. Postings say they are Published and in fact they never show up on the site. This has been going on for months now with no end in sight. I would say they need a few good systems engineers to fix what's going on, however, you would almost conclude that they enjoy and even relish the moments when their site is completely unreliable or offline for days at a time. It makes one wish of a day when a competent site with competent administration would come along to replace this type of environment.
1. talk negatively about company on quote.yahoo.com message boards
2. watch their stock price go low...low...low
3. buy company at low stock price
4. profit!!!
How does a file passing through one of these devices get tagged? I would assume that they would attempt to modify some of the bytes in the stream. This is going to be detected on one end by doing a md5sum and the hashes not matching up. Also, if they modify bytes in transit, they could mangle a file easily if done incorrectly. They may even be liable for damages by purposely selling broken hardware.
The article fails to mention the fact that its fairly easy to avoid congestion when you institute rate limiting / traffic shaping on outbound traffic. From the article, it sounds like the ISP's like comcast have no choice but to remove people from the network who are causing congestion for the rest of the users on a subnet. This is not the case, as it is simple to configure a router to control the flow of bandwidth to a particular link. This can be done on a connection basis, protocol basis, port basis, etc.
Would it be that far fetched that someone is paying Dell to *not* fully endorse/support Linux? These stories about Dell "will soon support linux" have been published about once a year for the last ten years. I don't think it's ever going to happen, and I would just conclude that a large company with vested interest in seeing Linux fail is responsible for it. A lot of other vendors support Linux, the main difference here is that Dell is the largest distributor of new Windows/Intel PC's.
The article claims that Vonage was in violation of "3 out of 5" patents owned by Verizon, but does not list any information about the actual patents except to claim that they dealt with call waiting and voicemail. I did a little research and was unable to find any reference to these patent numbers. Does anyone have any more information on the patents or their actual numbers or the court filings?
Personally I've been using my own API to google's search engine for much longer than google has put out an API... Ultimately screen scraping works and although you may have to spend a little bit longer getting the work done, it still works really well. You should really get off being spoon fed and write your own scraper/crawler engines and dont rely on someones API for doing scraping work anyway. I laughed back when Ebay/paypal offered their API for free because I had already written my own many years earlier. Another reason not to use these silly API's is that I dont want these people knowing how many times i'm pulling down data from their network... Ultimately they would probably blacklist my netblock anyway if they monitored what I was using their pipe for.