Would appear that the writer of the story does what writers do best, not research facts. Appears that they're still using the same old sorry BS of CD sales dropped 30% in whatever year it was. When in fact, what has been shown is that it was singles that dropped ( you know, the things you can't find any more, because people aren't willing to pay 5 dollars for 1 song on a CD ), during that year CD sales actually increased.
Overall the article is rather blah, I'm sort of surprised that they didn't throw in there something about the lose of some umpteen billion dollars that they would have made if it weren't for illegal file sharing...the good myth of each download is a lost sale.
One of the largest ISPs in the world, in just one of their routers in one of their geographical locations ( NYC ) does approximately 40 - 50 Gbps worth of traffic, that's total traffic. If you want to do just HTTP, you're looking at aggregate of 10Gbps. This is just in one location, this doesn't include things like the DC/Atlanta/Miama/DFW/Houston/SF/Seattle/Denver/Chi cago/Cleveland areas, not to mention all of their smaller level tiers in their own AS.
How is it even close to feasible to retain all/any data for any length of time?
This means you're filling up nearly a petabit worth of data every 6 hours, or a petabyte every 2 days. This is just in one location. That's just insane, especially if you want to hold on to that data for any considerable length of time. You're going to be looking at exabits of data in a short amount of time.
Apple: We can't seem to figure out how to stop people from taking our code and running it on none apple hardware... we suck.
So, they close it up.
Awesome... didn't want to run OS X anyway:-\
Verizon's recent purchase makes this subject moot.
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Is Verizon a Network Hog?
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Since Verizon's recent purchase of MCI, they have more bandwidth, both lit and unlit, than they know what to do with. Making the whole point of squeezing anything totally a non issue.
Hmmm. I'm viewing these video game restrictions in the same light that I'm viewing movie restrictions. I think it's okay for the government to restrict minors' access to R and NC-17 rated movies.
Except the issue is, the government has nothing to do with R and NC-17 rated movies, there is no law that puts someone under punishment for allowing someone under the age restriction in to see one of these movies. It's up to the individual movie theatre to enforce this suggestion.
The reasons why the ones you've mentioned are supporting the RIAA is that they have deals put on their album such that they make a good chunk of change off of each one sold ( points per album, etc ). Plus when you are the one that manufactures the album, own your own recording study, have your own distribution network, the RIAA sees very little off of those albums. So why not be seen as a standup citizen. It's the people/bands who are just hitting the seen that get bent over the most by the likes of the RIAA. That's why many new bands ( and some old ) are releasing directly to the net and skipping what they, and many others, see as an archaic systme.
Certs are good for culling the herd. I recently completed and passed my CISSP. During the week long process/cram session that was involved, one of the stories that came out was that a company was hiring people and they didn't REQUIRE a CISSP, but they did recommend it.
So what happened?
Well, of the 1400 resumes that came in, a search was done on the word CISSP, there were approximately 68 with CISSP on it, guess what happened to the other 1332 applications?
So, even though it's recommended, it's very tough to get past the HR department if the hiring manager comes through and says, just look for people with such-and-such on their resume.
I would have to say that the social contract that's being broken are by the people advertising. I've been browsing the web since it's inception with HTML and the like. The things that's been invaded is my space, not the other way around with me blocking it.
Adblock, flash block, block images from this server will always win out with me.
Sort of. I set up a torrent on an OC3 that people were sharing this torrent off of, max I got to was about 990k/s upload. Without the above OC3 I doubt you'd have reached such speeds.
I think what eventually evolved in to an "EULA" was first started by the author of... I think it was VisiCalc. His "EULA" basically said that I'm not responsible for damages that may occur due to poor programming on my part.
Then, why is it, that in the hosting biz when they guarntee 7 9s that comes out to 8 minutes a year of downtime?
ARGH too much converting. I've fallen in to the percentage to decimal conversion trap. Which is probably where the whole 7 9s thing comes from...those bastards!
6 9s gives you about 1.5 hours of downtime a year.
Most hosting companies offer 7 9s of uptime, which equates to about 5 to 6 minutes of downtime, but they round it and call it 8 minutes of downtime.
To get 30 seconds of downtime a year you'd need 8 9s of uptime.
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Hardening Apache
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You can turn this off when you compile apache, it's just a matter of editting a.h file, I believe, and putting in whatever you want. You could, for instance, create a "Joe Schmoe's webserver version 11000!" or something of that ilk.
However, when it comes to exploits that deal with knowing version numbers, most of it is script kiddy stuff, so it's [ the script ] is going ot just run default exploit attempts against the webserver regardless of what is returned about the webserver.
'purposely, to allow for our scientists at this remotest of locations to exchange data under difficult circumstances,'
Meaning they were too stupid to remember passwords and because they're "higher thinkers" they shouldn't have to put up with it. I've seen it too many times to count. Dorks.
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I'd just like to point out that they've misspelled Wired.
Someone mentioned something about an "open source" TV listings. For these free PVRs that are coming out, how/where do you get your TV listings from? Or do you just use the old school VCR method of plugging in a time/channel and get just that showing. As compared to a Tivo where you can say grab all these shows/season pass manager, etc.
God damnit your reading comprehension is severly lacking. They didn't lose 99B last year. Jesus H, they devalued, if you want to see how much they made/lost look at their EBITDA, that's the only number you should be looking at...it's the only worth a damn.
When I ran my server last night, I had two of my buddies connected, including me, and we all have seperate versions of the game, the key that was displayed to me was not the 30 key monster you had to enter when you installed, it was only 8 characters long ( may have been 10 )
You didn't read any of the articles, did you? You can admit it, otherwise you'd know that the reason you give isn't the ones given in the articles about why it's not out en masse.
Also, if you've read the article, someone makes the comment of where they'd expect to find Shell's website. The answer to that is www.shell.com first and foremost, thus my initial comment on the matter.
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Would appear that the writer of the story does what writers do best, not research facts. Appears that they're still using the same old sorry BS of CD sales dropped 30% in whatever year it was. When in fact, what has been shown is that it was singles that dropped ( you know, the things you can't find any more, because people aren't willing to pay 5 dollars for 1 song on a CD ), during that year CD sales actually increased.
Overall the article is rather blah, I'm sort of surprised that they didn't throw in there something about the lose of some umpteen billion dollars that they would have made if it weren't for illegal file sharing...the good myth of each download is a lost sale.
One of the largest ISPs in the world, in just one of their routers in one of their geographical locations ( NYC ) does approximately 40 - 50 Gbps worth of traffic, that's total traffic. If you want to do just HTTP, you're looking at aggregate of 10Gbps. This is just in one location, this doesn't include things like the DC/Atlanta/Miama/DFW/Houston/SF/Seattle/Denver/Chi cago/Cleveland areas, not to mention all of their smaller level tiers in their own AS.
How is it even close to feasible to retain all/any data for any length of time?
This means you're filling up nearly a petabit worth of data every 6 hours, or a petabyte every 2 days. This is just in one location. That's just insane, especially if you want to hold on to that data for any considerable length of time. You're going to be looking at exabits of data in a short amount of time.
So, basically, without the spin.
... we suck.
... didn't want to run OS X anyway :-\
Apple: We can't seem to figure out how to stop people from taking our code and running it on none apple hardware
So, they close it up.
Awesome
Since Verizon's recent purchase of MCI, they have more bandwidth, both lit and unlit, than they know what to do with. Making the whole point of squeezing anything totally a non issue.
Except the issue is, the government has nothing to do with R and NC-17 rated movies, there is no law that puts someone under punishment for allowing someone under the age restriction in to see one of these movies. It's up to the individual movie theatre to enforce this suggestion.
The reasons why the ones you've mentioned are supporting the RIAA is that they have deals put on their album such that they make a good chunk of change off of each one sold ( points per album, etc ). Plus when you are the one that manufactures the album, own your own recording study, have your own distribution network, the RIAA sees very little off of those albums. So why not be seen as a standup citizen. It's the people/bands who are just hitting the seen that get bent over the most by the likes of the RIAA. That's why many new bands ( and some old ) are releasing directly to the net and skipping what they, and many others, see as an archaic systme.
Certs are good for culling the herd. I recently completed and passed my CISSP. During the week long process/cram session that was involved, one of the stories that came out was that a company was hiring people and they didn't REQUIRE a CISSP, but they did recommend it.
So what happened?
Well, of the 1400 resumes that came in, a search was done on the word CISSP, there were approximately 68 with CISSP on it, guess what happened to the other 1332 applications?
So, even though it's recommended, it's very tough to get past the HR department if the hiring manager comes through and says, just look for people with such-and-such on their resume.
Modded up, b/c it was funny and I do remember.
I would have to say that the social contract that's being broken are by the people advertising. I've been browsing the web since it's inception with HTML and the like. The things that's been invaded is my space, not the other way around with me blocking it.
Adblock, flash block, block images from this server will always win out with me.
My guess would be when the Twinkie Defense of 1970s actually succeeded.
Sort of. I set up a torrent on an OC3 that people were sharing this torrent off of, max I got to was about 990k/s upload. Without the above OC3 I doubt you'd have reached such speeds.
I think what eventually evolved in to an "EULA" was first started by the author of ... I think it was VisiCalc. His "EULA" basically said that I'm not responsible for damages that may occur due to poor programming on my part.
At least I think that's how it all started.
I don't know about you, but I believe in the sysadmin credo, do as little work as possible.
Therefore, any competent sysadmin would never use rm -Rf, they'd use rm -rf, that R takes a lot of effort for me to move my pinky to the shift key.
*sheesh*
Hrm, I believe you're right.
Then, why is it, that in the hosting biz when they guarntee 7 9s that comes out to 8 minutes a year of downtime?
ARGH too much converting. I've fallen in to the percentage to decimal conversion trap. Which is probably where the whole 7 9s thing comes from...those bastards!
Which is what I said, 8 9s gives you about 30 seconds.
.0001. Not .000001, which is is 8 9s.
I'm actually off on the first part. 6 9s, which is what you're giving is only 3153 seconds, which is under an hour, about by a few minutes.
If you'd like me to convert it for you. 6 9s is
And, if you'd like 99.9% + 99.9% only gives 99.999% I believe. Which is about 9 hours of downtime a year, which still isn't bad.
6 9s gives you about 1.5 hours of downtime a year.
Most hosting companies offer 7 9s of uptime, which equates to about 5 to 6 minutes of downtime, but they round it and call it 8 minutes of downtime.
To get 30 seconds of downtime a year you'd need 8 9s of uptime.
You can turn this off when you compile apache, it's just a matter of editting a .h file, I believe, and putting in whatever you want. You could, for instance, create a "Joe Schmoe's webserver version 11000!" or something of that ilk.
However, when it comes to exploits that deal with knowing version numbers, most of it is script kiddy stuff, so it's [ the script ] is going ot just run default exploit attempts against the webserver regardless of what is returned about the webserver.
Meaning they were too stupid to remember passwords and because they're "higher thinkers" they shouldn't have to put up with it. I've seen it too many times to count. Dorks.
Please note: We are currently experiencing an extremely heavy server load due to the Wired article. Some images may not load. Thank you for your patience.
I'd just like to point out that they've misspelled Wired.
A village is out there, crying, like baby jesus, because it's idiot ran away...please send him back.
Someone mentioned something about an "open source" TV listings. For these free PVRs that are coming out, how/where do you get your TV listings from? Or do you just use the old school VCR method of plugging in a time/channel and get just that showing. As compared to a Tivo where you can say grab all these shows/season pass manager, etc.
God damnit your reading comprehension is severly lacking. They didn't lose 99B last year. Jesus H, they devalued, if you want to see how much they made/lost look at their EBITDA, that's the only number you should be looking at...it's the only worth a damn.
When I ran my server last night, I had two of my buddies connected, including me, and we all have seperate versions of the game, the key that was displayed to me was not the 30 key monster you had to enter when you installed, it was only 8 characters long ( may have been 10 )
You didn't read any of the articles, did you? You can admit it, otherwise you'd know that the reason you give isn't the ones given in the articles about why it's not out en masse.
Also, if you've read the article, someone makes the comment of where they'd expect to find Shell's website. The answer to that is www.shell.com first and foremost, thus my initial comment on the matter.