I would not put it past these companies to create new flu strains and unleash them on the public, knowing sales would be generated. We've known about this strain since March 2009 and there are shortages of the vaccine so everyone is scrambling to buy it. One company in 2008 in it's SEC filing (sorry I do not recall it) claimed that they expected a 800% increase in antiviral sales in 2009 from government stockpiling.
and here's a gem.
"That the so-called swine flu was first observed in Mexico just at the same time Nicholas Sarkozy, president of France, was visiting there to announcement the establishment of a new French vaccine plant in Mexico, has to be more than coincidence." http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi122.html
The iPhone is a one trick pony, there are 8-10 Android phones now coming out, and that number will quadruple next year. Were seeing Android for flip phones putting it in areas Apple has yet to try to touch. Android will catch up with the iPhone in units deployed, even AT&T has Android units out there, and they're more than happy to trot that one out so they can likely put Apple in a bind. If the Droid is any indicator, Verizon will not be carrying the iPhone anytime soon which limits Apple's choices. I'm sure they shopped the iPhone to just AT&T and Verizon. Apple would not put it with a 2nd tier company, and Sprint has not been viable since it's acquisition of Nextel.
Their only choice today would be T-Mobile once their HSPDA+ upgrades are complete, Apple can say "Oh Look 21Mbps!", but by then LTE will be in full swing with Verizon, and they'll go "Ooh the iSlow or the LTE Droid at 30Mbps".
The phone makers were caught blindsided by the iPhone and now it's their turn to put Apple in a bind. Apple's choices are to stay closed and relegate itself to the "Other Phone" or open itself up and see OS X on more phones. Owning a iPhone myself I hope they stay closed, I've about had it with the battery life of the iPhone, and iTunes quirks.
It's also in some cases after we paid for their educations through government grants, many of which place no requirements on them remaining in the US.
Case in point, my ex attends college here free, working on her PHD. In fact she said that there's so much free money he plans on getting a second masters as well.
It'd be nice when the US Government would invest in it's own citizens.
Running new lines means, bargaining with every municipality you come across, then burying the actual lines, paying for any damages you cause etc etc.
Take the Dallas Ft Worth Area in Texas. Keller might let you run the lines, but Watuga or Roanoke could say no, and Westlake Could say yes. What good is that? Not to mention most of those cities will ask for a "donation" of some sort which makes it even more expensive.
There is absolutely no venture capital for this sort of thing at all. Anyone who thinks they could do it would find their proposals DOA when they start asking for money. This is exactly the reason cities who do their own broadband have to pass bond packages to pay for it.
Only problem is you yanks keep coming down here and taking local public offices and running up the taxes. I knew the town I lived in was doomed the second roundabouts started showing up as intersections.
How long have they had telescopes that could do this thing and never pointed it at local planets? I sure hope they look at Uranus and see if there are any infrared klingons they might have missed.
CEO "hey Cisco we invented a fix so we dont have to go to IPV6" Cisco: "Yeah so what?, you expect us to switch to your untested solution, vacate billions in research development and manufacturing and try to convince the world it's the way to go" CEO: "Yes!" *click* "Hello?"
Unfortunately the way I have heard it is that this time the wolf is there.
DOD is moving to IPV6, Comcast and other ISP's are planning public deployments next year. By 2012 companies will begin vacating IPV4 spaces, most of that will not be re-allocated so as to pressure remaining networks to get off the IPv4 address space in favor of IPv6.
There is no requirement for handling the entire IPv4 routing table on edge devices. If you're a small network using BGP you ignore the internet and just advertise default routes OUT of your network. If you're a big network, MPLS + BGP free core is the way to go. In general vacating traffic to the nearest edge connection (when cost is not a factor) is the best policy.
Where cost comes into play there are numerous ways around carrying the routing tables again. The only reason you would carry full tables is if you provide BGP connectivity to your downstream customers. In that case you segment that portion of the network and provide for it in a small controlled manner to avoid unnecessary complexity of your "dumb" network.
Patently untrue. The costs of vacating spaces is enormous. Nobody is sitting on ip's they're going to give up. To give up any portion of a/8 implies that you actually segmented your network from day one and are able to shave off those pieces. In most cases were talking about 20+ years of network growth and re-engineering. I'm sure enormous chunks are tied up and to clean that out will just never be worth the trouble.
IANA is requiring company officers to attest to the need of the remaining IP space personally in D.C. Guess what, they're denying everyone unless failure to allocate anything less than a/8 would cause economic or communications harm to a high degree. Were talking about national level impacts or exhaustion that could bankrupt a company.
It's being implemented by 2 tier 1 carriers in the US that I know of. Though it's not really going to be geared towards computers. It's all more or less smartphones and other non PC end devices.
Some ISP's will just do the IPV4-6 conversion in your modem and everything at the home will be IPV4. I'm sure for 99% of the people out there it will be fine. The rest of us are going to be pulling their hair out.
If a users buys hardware to perform a function they expect it to perform said function. Nvidia comes along and disables the function because for whatever reason you have a competitor's graphics card inside the system. I know some people who do this because a ATI card may be better at certain tasks outside of games. Either way Nvidia should be held accountable, the license you agreed to by opening the box says nothing about installing competitors cards into your machine. In fact I do not see how they can dictate what hardware you put into your box. It's been held that auto makers can not void your warranty for using non manufacturer parts or if they say it will the law states they have to provide the part for free. How is this any different than mixing champion and bosch ignition parts. "We refuse to spark because the distributior cap is nor our brand"
Unfortunately there will be many public implementations of IPv4-IPv6 natting going on in 2010. This is an interim solution to eliminate the need for any IPv4 support on the client side. There are less than 9/8's left to be handed out and those are being held tightly. Corporations are being told no more or they're being forced to send company officers to DC to argue their cases directly.
2010 will see several nationwide rollouts of IPv6 native services on end user devices in the mobile market where there hardware is pretty user agnostic. I know of no major deployments of IPv6 in the consumer segment, namely because replacement of CPE devices would be extremely expensive. It could happen for greenfield deployments and other new buildouts of service.
Another issue that's been brought up is that a/64 is the smallest point to point subnet and there's no equivalent to a/32 for IPv4. Not sure why a p2p connection needs a few billion ip's. Clearly there are still a few idiots on the IETF payrolls, perhaps the same ones who thought IPv4 had enough..
Every person outsourced to another country to work is a drain on our economy. These people are not buying goods made in America, they're buying Japanese and Chinese or local goods. This is the same for factories etc. Every job lost due to this is replaced with a lower paying job in most cases and in a good number of cases no job at all. This reduces sales of products and services in our country and these companies who started this mess are too narrow sighted to even know they are creating a bigger mess as things progress. At least illegals spend some of their money in this country and it's about a billion dollars that gets sent down to Mexico, compared to trillions that are sent overseas for all kinds of things.
This is not about protectionist or anything. It's about doing things that make economic sense for this country. We are slowly being drained dry by countries who are undercutting our workforces, but at the same time refusing to trade with us. Free trade is a scam, it's nothing but an excuse for people in power to fool those who do not know better. Ask any American farmer about "Free Trade" and he'll tell you a story or two.
Is it any wonder that we've had two severe recessions in the last 10 years. This is not about a cycle, there is a endemic problem in how our economy is being abused by big business. Some of these rich could care less if this country crumbled to dust, they can just move. The rest of us cant.
They serve no purpose other than giving people a way to distribute malicious links. The Idea was to save some bandwidth, but now it uses more because people are having to write scripts that allow mouseovers to see where the link actually goes which now just causes a few lookups of the same url to happen anyways per person rather than just sitting on a post somewhere.
In most cases the URL itself is less than 1% of the size of the content of a web page so exactly who or what they're saving is unclear.
The state would not be able to function. It happens, far more often than any of the 8 datacenters I work on have ever gone down. Wait.. none of them have ever gone down in 10 years.
You could lose a single service and that happens, no big deal.
Setup a few servers to host the patches and pay someone to turn those newer versions into valid rpm and deb packages so they can be used to patch said systems.
Past that, the policy needs to be reviewed. If they're patching because of a physical vuln vs a remote attack then that's just plain stupid. If the system is properly secured according to TSSCI etc then it's not a huge issue to ensure upgrades for at the keyboard attacks. If you lack phys security then you have much bigger problems, any linux system can be owned in minutes if you can get your hands on it.
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I would not put it past these companies to create new flu strains and unleash them on the public, knowing sales would be generated. We've known about this strain since March 2009 and there are shortages of the vaccine so everyone is scrambling to buy it. One company in 2008 in it's SEC filing (sorry I do not recall it) claimed that they expected a 800% increase in antiviral sales in 2009 from government stockpiling.
and here's a gem.
"That the so-called swine flu was first observed in Mexico just at the same time Nicholas Sarkozy, president of France, was visiting there to announcement the establishment of a new French vaccine plant in Mexico, has to be more than coincidence." http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi122.html
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Aventis-Vaccine-Factory-in-by-Doreen-Carlson-090519-669.html
Even our own government has in the past infected it's own population to see how disease spreads.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_biological_weapons_program#Experiments_on_non-consenting_individuals
I'm not one to cook up conspiracy theories, but it's always healthy to question things IMO.
Could of sworn this was up 3 weeks ago on CNN. Slow news day?
The iPhone is a one trick pony, there are 8-10 Android phones now coming out, and that number will quadruple next year. Were seeing Android for flip phones putting it in areas Apple has yet to try to touch. Android will catch up with the iPhone in units deployed, even AT&T has Android units out there, and they're more than happy to trot that one out so they can likely put Apple in a bind. If the Droid is any indicator, Verizon will not be carrying the iPhone anytime soon which limits Apple's choices. I'm sure they shopped the iPhone to just AT&T and Verizon. Apple would not put it with a 2nd tier company, and Sprint has not been viable since it's acquisition of Nextel.
Their only choice today would be T-Mobile once their HSPDA+ upgrades are complete, Apple can say "Oh Look 21Mbps!", but by then LTE will be in full swing with Verizon, and they'll go "Ooh the iSlow or the LTE Droid at 30Mbps".
The phone makers were caught blindsided by the iPhone and now it's their turn to put Apple in a bind. Apple's choices are to stay closed and relegate itself to the "Other Phone" or open itself up and see OS X on more phones. Owning a iPhone myself I hope they stay closed, I've about had it with the battery life of the iPhone, and iTunes quirks.
Songbird + Andorid wil rock.
It's also in some cases after we paid for their educations through government grants, many of which place no requirements on them remaining in the US.
Case in point, my ex attends college here free, working on her PHD. In fact she said that there's so much free money he plans on getting a second masters as well.
It'd be nice when the US Government would invest in it's own citizens.
Sorry, but I'm sure the real criminals got away, these guys are probably fall guys.
Running new lines means, bargaining with every municipality you come across, then burying the actual lines, paying for any damages you cause etc etc.
Take the Dallas Ft Worth Area in Texas. Keller might let you run the lines, but Watuga or Roanoke could say no, and Westlake Could say yes. What good is that? Not to mention most of those cities will ask for a "donation" of some sort which makes it even more expensive.
There is absolutely no venture capital for this sort of thing at all. Anyone who thinks they could do it would find their proposals DOA when they start asking for money. This is exactly the reason cities who do their own broadband have to pass bond packages to pay for it.
Only problem is you yanks keep coming down here and taking local public offices and running up the taxes. I knew the town I lived in was doomed the second roundabouts started showing up as intersections.
How long have they had telescopes that could do this thing and never pointed it at local planets? I sure hope they look at Uranus and see if there are any infrared klingons they might have missed.
Gate dials out, IE one way xfer. So for air to come from somewhere else you have to dial into the ship.
Suuuuurrre..
CEO "hey Cisco we invented a fix so we dont have to go to IPV6"
Cisco: "Yeah so what?, you expect us to switch to your untested solution, vacate billions in research development and manufacturing and try to convince the world it's the way to go"
CEO: "Yes!" *click* "Hello?"
Unfortunately the way I have heard it is that this time the wolf is there.
DOD is moving to IPV6, Comcast and other ISP's are planning public deployments next year. By 2012 companies will begin vacating IPV4 spaces, most of that will not be re-allocated so as to pressure remaining networks to get off the IPv4 address space in favor of IPv6.
There is no requirement for handling the entire IPv4 routing table on edge devices. If you're a small network using BGP you ignore the internet and just advertise default routes OUT of your network. If you're a big network, MPLS + BGP free core is the way to go. In general vacating traffic to the nearest edge connection (when cost is not a factor) is the best policy.
Where cost comes into play there are numerous ways around carrying the routing tables again. The only reason you would carry full tables is if you provide BGP connectivity to your downstream customers. In that case you segment that portion of the network and provide for it in a small controlled manner to avoid unnecessary complexity of your "dumb" network.
Patently untrue. The costs of vacating spaces is enormous. Nobody is sitting on ip's they're going to give up. To give up any portion of a /8 implies that you actually segmented your network from day one and are able to shave off those pieces. In most cases were talking about 20+ years of network growth and re-engineering. I'm sure enormous chunks are tied up and to clean that out will just never be worth the trouble.
IANA is requiring company officers to attest to the need of the remaining IP space personally in D.C. Guess what, they're denying everyone unless failure to allocate anything less than a /8 would cause economic or communications harm to a high degree. Were talking about national level impacts or exhaustion that could bankrupt a company.
It's being implemented by 2 tier 1 carriers in the US that I know of. Though it's not really going to be geared towards computers. It's all more or less smartphones and other non PC end devices.
Some ISP's will just do the IPV4-6 conversion in your modem and everything at the home will be IPV4. I'm sure for 99% of the people out there it will be fine. The rest of us are going to be pulling their hair out.
If a users buys hardware to perform a function they expect it to perform said function. Nvidia comes along and disables the function because for whatever reason you have a competitor's graphics card inside the system. I know some people who do this because a ATI card may be better at certain tasks outside of games. Either way Nvidia should be held accountable, the license you agreed to by opening the box says nothing about installing competitors cards into your machine. In fact I do not see how they can dictate what hardware you put into your box. It's been held that auto makers can not void your warranty for using non manufacturer parts or if they say it will the law states they have to provide the part for free. How is this any different than mixing champion and bosch ignition parts. "We refuse to spark because the distributior cap is nor our brand"
Means Apple paid Intel to mangle it so it will not boot OS X. Is it any wonder that no EFI motherboards are on the market?
Unfortunately there will be many public implementations of IPv4-IPv6 natting going on in 2010. This is an interim solution to eliminate the need for any IPv4 support on the client side. There are less than 9 /8's left to be handed out and those are being held tightly. Corporations are being told no more or they're being forced to send company officers to DC to argue their cases directly.
2010 will see several nationwide rollouts of IPv6 native services on end user devices in the mobile market where there hardware is pretty user agnostic. I know of no major deployments of IPv6 in the consumer segment, namely because replacement of CPE devices would be extremely expensive. It could happen for greenfield deployments and other new buildouts of service.
Another issue that's been brought up is that a /64 is the smallest point to point subnet and there's no equivalent to a /32 for IPv4. Not sure why a p2p connection needs a few billion ip's. Clearly there are still a few idiots on the IETF payrolls, perhaps the same ones who thought IPv4 had enough..
Now if you could figure out a way to encode a full 1500 byte packet into 160 characters you'd make some big money.
Every person outsourced to another country to work is a drain on our economy. These people are not buying goods made in America, they're buying Japanese and Chinese or local goods. This is the same for factories etc. Every job lost due to this is replaced with a lower paying job in most cases and in a good number of cases no job at all. This reduces sales of products and services in our country and these companies who started this mess are too narrow sighted to even know they are creating a bigger mess as things progress. At least illegals spend some of their money in this country and it's about a billion dollars that gets sent down to Mexico, compared to trillions that are sent overseas for all kinds of things.
This is not about protectionist or anything. It's about doing things that make economic sense for this country. We are slowly being drained dry by countries who are undercutting our workforces, but at the same time refusing to trade with us. Free trade is a scam, it's nothing but an excuse for people in power to fool those who do not know better. Ask any American farmer about "Free Trade" and he'll tell you a story or two.
Is it any wonder that we've had two severe recessions in the last 10 years. This is not about a cycle, there is a endemic problem in how our economy is being abused by big business. Some of these rich could care less if this country crumbled to dust, they can just move. The rest of us cant.
I was always dreading having my wisdom teeth taken out.
While in the Army I had a cracked molar that had to be removed and the dentist says, "Look at the good side, you were born without wisdom teeth".
They serve no purpose other than giving people a way to distribute malicious links. The Idea was to save some bandwidth, but now it uses more because people are having to write scripts that allow mouseovers to see where the link actually goes which now just causes a few lookups of the same url to happen anyways per person rather than just sitting on a post somewhere.
In most cases the URL itself is less than 1% of the size of the content of a web page so exactly who or what they're saving is unclear.
I expected similar results, but perhaps M$ is not as worried about Linux as their SEC filings say.
Why do you have to answer a question with a question?
Why do you have to ask me questions?
The state would not be able to function. It happens, far more often than any of the 8 datacenters I work on have ever gone down. Wait.. none of them have ever gone down in 10 years.
You could lose a single service and that happens, no big deal.
Cloud goes down, EVERYTHING goes down.
They should consider that.
Setup a few servers to host the patches and pay someone to turn those newer versions into valid rpm and deb packages so they can be used to patch said systems.
Past that, the policy needs to be reviewed. If they're patching because of a physical vuln vs a remote attack then that's just plain stupid. If the system is properly secured according to TSSCI etc then it's not a huge issue to ensure upgrades for at the keyboard attacks. If you lack phys security then you have much bigger problems, any linux system can be owned in minutes if you can get your hands on it.