From the pictures, it looks like most of the good stuff is already gone. Most of the racks only have a couple of pieces of equipment in them. I cannot believe all of that rackspace was for future growth.
Using Vonage as an example, their 911 goes to a fixed address, the one you have set up on the account. However, you can use your equipment anywhere you can plug in to the net. The 911 call would do you a lot of good if you take you phone on vacation to Hawaii from New York.
The easist way I can see to accomodate this is to have a GPS built in to the phone to report its position. Insert privacy warning here.
What about international calls? Even if it has my absolute location, who would receive the 911 call if I connect the phone in India? Insert India call center joke here.
This is probably a good idea, but the implementation needs a whole lot of thought.
Does anyone remember the ignition interlocks that were required nationwide in the late seventies? There was a seat belt buckled interlock that would not permit the vehicle to be started if the belts were not buckled.
The law was quickly repealed. The reason given was women were unable to start the vehicle and escape from a sexual assault. Of course a lot of people just kept the seat belts constantly buckled and just sat on them.
That happens when the good being tracked is a person?
I would think hospitals would be drooling all over this also. They could securely identify a patient so there would be no more mixed up procedures. Inject a tag in each patient, and have the a reader in each chart holder to id the person.
Better yet, inject one in each infant immediately after birth. No more baby swapping nightmares.
I have Charter, not Comcast, so YMMV. For the last several months they have had problems with their equipment at the local office. I still have analog cable. The DA converter in their office for Bravo is bad. Lots of tileing, complete loss of souce/picture... I have had many calls to customer service. They are not local, and their only option is to schedule a service call to my house. The day of the call the local office calls, tells me it is not at my house, which I already know, that they are having problems in their office, and expect it to be fixed soon. I have visited the local office a couple of times also, and they know about the problem, but apparently cannot fix it for one reason or another.
They have also changed the channel lineup without notice fairly regularly.
I am seriously thinking about switching to satellite, but I have a couple of problems. My wiring isn't up to satelite standards, and I have five connections.
I rarely watch the talking heads on the local channels, so not getting them would not be a big deal, and the satellite offers many more movie channels.
Is it a copyright violation to download a file named "My Childs Flute Concert", discover it is in fact a copyrighted song, and then delete it because of that? Or downloading on of several phoney songs that the music industry seeded in to the networks bacause you thought is was the copyrighted song you wanted, but it turned out to be garbage?
In the first case there is no intent to violate the copyright, but you may have done so (fair use?). In the second case the intent was there, but a violation did not occur because the content was not copyrighted (unless the garbage audio was copyrighted also).
They also make a good point about paying a service to access the material. Their service should be paying the licensing fees.
If they in fact play then delete their songs, this is much like one of the streaming services, or even PVR's.
Retailers have been required to collect sales tax for states in which they have an office. I guess some of them have been ignoring this, but that doesn't have anything to do with the internet. Walmart has locations almost everywhere, and should have been collecting taxes all along. I always wondered what Gateway was doing, opening stores in major markets with sales tax like California, triggering them to collect taxes on the online sales also.
Why was this port open to the internet in the first place? Shouldn't the database servers be behind the firewalls, and only accept connections from trusted hosts on the outside? the rapid spread of this worm seems to point so serious design problems with the networks at many companys. The Bank of America infection is particularly troubling.
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From the pictures, it looks like most of the good stuff is already gone. Most of the racks only have a couple of pieces of equipment in them. I cannot believe all of that rackspace was for future growth.
How do they expect this to work?
Using Vonage as an example, their 911 goes to a fixed address, the one you have set up on the account. However, you can use your equipment anywhere you can plug in to the net. The 911 call would do you a lot of good if you take you phone on vacation to Hawaii from New York.
The easist way I can see to accomodate this is to have a GPS built in to the phone to report its position. Insert privacy warning here.
What about international calls? Even if it has my absolute location, who would receive the 911 call if I connect the phone in India? Insert India call center joke here.
This is probably a good idea, but the implementation needs a whole lot of thought.
Does anyone remember the ignition interlocks that were required nationwide in the late seventies? There was a seat belt buckled interlock that would not permit the vehicle to be started if the belts were not buckled.
The law was quickly repealed. The reason given was women were unable to start the vehicle and escape from a sexual assault. Of course a lot of people just kept the seat belts constantly buckled and just sat on them.
That happens when the good being tracked is a person?
I would think hospitals would be drooling all over this also. They could securely identify a patient so there would be no more mixed up procedures. Inject a tag in each patient, and have the a reader in each chart holder to id the person.
Better yet, inject one in each infant immediately after birth. No more baby swapping nightmares.
I have Charter, not Comcast, so YMMV. For the last several months they have had problems with their equipment at the local office. I still have analog cable. The DA converter in their office for Bravo is bad. Lots of tileing, complete loss of souce/picture... I have had many calls to customer service. They are not local, and their only option is to schedule a service call to my house. The day of the call the local office calls, tells me it is not at my house, which I already know, that they are having problems in their office, and expect it to be fixed soon. I have visited the local office a couple of times also, and they know about the problem, but apparently cannot fix it for one reason or another.
They have also changed the channel lineup without notice fairly regularly.
I am seriously thinking about switching to satellite, but I have a couple of problems. My wiring isn't up to satelite standards, and I have five connections.
I rarely watch the talking heads on the local channels, so not getting them would not be a big deal, and the satellite offers many more movie channels.
Is it a copyright violation to download a file named "My Childs Flute Concert", discover it is in fact a copyrighted song, and then delete it because of that? Or downloading on of several phoney songs that the music industry seeded in to the networks bacause you thought is was the copyrighted song you wanted, but it turned out to be garbage?
In the first case there is no intent to violate the copyright, but you may have done so (fair use?). In the second case the intent was there, but a violation did not occur because the content was not copyrighted (unless the garbage audio was copyrighted also).
They also make a good point about paying a service to access the material. Their service should be paying the licensing fees.
If they in fact play then delete their songs, this is much like one of the streaming services, or even PVR's.
Retailers have been required to collect sales tax for states in which they have an office. I guess some of them have been ignoring this, but that doesn't have anything to do with the internet.
Walmart has locations almost everywhere, and should have been collecting taxes all along.
I always wondered what Gateway was doing, opening stores in major markets with sales tax like California, triggering them to collect taxes on the online sales also.
Why was this port open to the internet in the first place? Shouldn't the database servers be behind the firewalls, and only accept connections from trusted hosts on the outside? the rapid spread of this worm seems to point so serious design problems with the networks at many companys. The Bank of America infection is particularly troubling.